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DeVore says that some textbooks are ghostwritten by journalists, and marketed under the names of well-known scholars to improve national sales. Although he says he knows of no one at Harvard who would stoop to such a practice, he believes it is more common among "people at lesser-known universities...
...second session of the Congress of People's Deputies had barely begun last week when a bald, stoop-shouldered man hesitantly made his way to the front of the Kremlin Palace of Congresses. Mikhail Gorbachev motioned for Deputy Andrei Sakharov to step up to the podium, then settled back in his seat, not quite sure what to expect...
...convention, which continues this week. No sooner did Gorbachev rise to chair the session than a delegate stepped forward to challenge the agenda, which had been set in a rump party session the day before by 446 delegates. "Please, People's Deputy Andrei Dimitreyevich Sakharov," invited Gorbachev as the stoop-shouldered Nobel Peace laureate -- his country's best-known dissident -- took the microphone. Sakharov, who only 2 1/2 years ago was enduring exile in the city of Gorky, expressed concern that the Congress was ceding too much legislative power to the smaller, indirectly elected Supreme Soviet. With the Congress preparing...
Thank you for your telegram congratulating me on my successful campaign for president. I apologize for having savagely attacked your fine institution so often during the campaign. Certainly you must understand that to win elections we sometimes must stoop to cheap demogoguery. Golly, I am, after all, a Yalie...
IMAGINE the summer of 1994, a brownstone stoop, Philadelphia, two 10-year-old kids...