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...said he was unable to assess the impact of his report on the transition team, but speculated it was "unlikely" that debate over the recommendations would stall White House appointments...
Otto Eckstein, Warburg Professor of Economics, said a tax reduction of some sort is the quickest way to get the nation out of its current economic stall...
...used it for his "brilliant" books. Fortunately for Martin, Tessler is wooed over to candidate Monckton's staff, so Martin's job is safeguarded. Unfortunately for Martin, after the election, his new boss, President Monckton, wants to see all of the CIA's top-secret files. Martin has to stall Monckton so he won't see the secret report on the South American invasion. The pressure mounts. Only by collecting conclusive evidence that the president approved illegal break-ins and wiretappings can Martin blackmail Monckton...
...quality of life, reminiscent of Carl Asakawa's theme, is a favorite topic of another Widener scholar and one of Fawzi's friends who joined him for lunch that day. This retired rabbi and teacher, who asked that his name be withheld, has camped in a Widener stall since 1958 investigating the relationship between customs and daily life for the Jews of the late Middle Ages. His scholarly interests, the rabbi said, lie in examining customs as a basis for case study and in putting customs in a typological framework...
Blair Axel '76, one of the youngest stall-dwellers, envisions Widener as both the scholar's idea of a home and Mrs. Widener's idea of a temple of knowledge. "It's really Siberia down there," Axel said last week. He estimated that he spent 10-12 hours a day inside a C-level stall while working on his thesis which deals with the founding of The Nation, an intellectual journal of the post-Civil War period. "The walls are bedrock. I sat there shivering and turning pages. The only problem was falling asleep." He laughed, "I haven't been...