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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Shortly afterward, Carter invited Begin back to the White House. In an eight-minute meeting, Carter told him of his plan to fly to the Middle East to obtain Egypt's acceptance of the compromise. Leaving the President's office, Begin flashed a "thumbs up" sign to an aide and exclaimed, "Good news! World news!" Cutting short his trip to the U.S. by one day, he flew home and declared, "This has been a good week for Israel...
...change Washington's mood was one reason for Carter's sudden decision to head for the Middle East. Having been stung by his decline in the opinion polls, Carter was reaching for a dramatic foreign venture. By going to Cairo and Jerusalem on short notice, he might satisfy those critics who have been clamoring for him to "do something somewhere...
That is, until last Tuesday, when Kenneth J. Arrow, Conant University Professor, released a letter stating that the ACSR had overestimated both the short-and long-term costs of divesting of all stocks in companies having a minority of their operations in South Africa (MOSAs...
...think Mr. Marius's criticism of the expository skills of fiction students can be dealt with through the current method of screening applicants to fiction Expos for evidence of previously established competence in these skills. I would willingly concede that reading short stories on the side also helped me a great deal, but Mrs. Thomson actively encouraged this anyway. I believe critical essays on these other works as would be required by Expos 18 are unnecessary and cannot but detract from the student's opportunity to develop his or her own writing style...
...replace fiction Expos, Marius has proposed a new experimental course, Expository Writing 18, which would require both critical essays about fiction and short fictional vignettes. But Marius's attempted compromise will not work, because it cannot accomodate the desires of many freshmen to write longer, more developed fiction under careful guidance. Marius's action removes half of the available number of fiction courses at the University, and will increase the pressure on the already over-subscribed advanced fiction courses...