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...rather rare historical company. Although killing rulers and leaders is a human practice that sometimes seems commonplace, it has usually been the work of individual fanatics, rival factions within a nation, insurrectionists, nationalists seeking to throw off external government, or citizens moved to eliminate a tyrant. Seldom have governments set out to kill the principals of other governments as a matter of cool policy, even with the bloodiest provocation...
What the Senate must decide is whether Stan Hathaway [June 2] is what the public feared I was. People say I changed after I became Secretary of the Interior [under President Nixon, who later fired the independent Mr. Hickel]. Check a man's record. He seldom changes...
...heavy things. There's none of that 'Carry your own bags, lady.' " Arnaud has probably never asked her to carry anything heavier than a silver-plated derrick. That is lucky, because Isabel is fashionably fragile. A friend says that Isabel has only one fault: she is seldom on time. This may be because Isabel, who finds tending her looks very demanding, has sudden, crippling doubts about her appearance. "If I am tired or feeling bad, I just can't go out," she explains. "My friends would never recognize...
...snail's pace. There are more than 700 full professors in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, and Harvard's affirmative action program projects and increase between 1973 and 1976 from nine to 15 tenured minorities and from 18 to 37 tenured women. The departmental goals are modest, seldom exceeded, sometimes not met. If affirmative action goals seem overly strict in theory, in practice at Harvard they are more often criticized for being so lenient that they do not guarantee progress...
...which includes Jane Alexander and Ilka Chase, never quite achieves the sense of giddy weightlessness that a Coward comedy should have. Still, the players at least sense that there is more here than period grace, that this is a piece to be acted, not condescended to. Modern audiences are seldom spoken to as Coward spoke, and there is a great pleasure in making the most...