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...Harvard is a very attractive place to go," said Spencer Reynolds, Princeton's assistant dean of admissions. "The numbers have been fairly consistent over the years. Harvard has been the college students choose [over the other three] and represents the largest loss we have...
...Windsors" is like a prime-time serial, it is one that, before Lady Diana Spencer joined the cast, was having ratings problems. The characters had become predictable: no more wildly inappropriate flings for Princess Margaret; prickly Princess Anne had turned goody-goody; crusty Philip made nary a gaffe; and the Queen, as ever, was placid perfection. For Charles, the role of bachelor Prince was becoming old hat; the public grew tired of a succession of Charlie's Angels but never a bride. Then, like an inspired casting director, Charles picked an unlikely ingenue for the role of Princess: the girl...
Recently, the academy received a $2.5 million grant from the Spencer Foundation which bolsters their previous budget of about $250,000 annually, according to Michelle von Koch, the academy's past executive director. Graham's first duty will be awarding 75 post-doctoral researchers the grant money for their projects...
...Reagan, still recuperating from his July cancer surgery, absorbed the urgency of the situation? Stuart Spencer, Reagan's longtime political consultant and one of the rare associates with nerve enough to bring the President bad news, returned from a recent lunch at the ranch apparently converted to the President's habitual optimism. Spencer brushed off forebodings that Reagan's second term might be slipping into the kind of doldrums that affected Dwight Eisenhower's last four years, starting in 1957. "Eisenhower was tired of being President," Spencer argued. "This guy loves it and works at it. He's a different...
...eloquence, and affectation for originality." Even after it becomes known in 1859 that George Eliot is actually a woman, she is never accused of similar foolishness. For the rest of her life she is regarded as the formidable equal of such eminent Victorians as Charles Dickens and Herbert Spencer...