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Beyond these factual misrepresentations. Nordhaus's article also seems substantially misleading in its tone, which seems to suggest that OCS administration of the fellowships process is incompetent, inadequte, and even conspiratorial. We read, for example, that faculty and House fellowships officers (HFOs) have complained about the working of this "small, exclusive and highly secretive committee." The Selection Committee is by definition small and exclusive--it consists of all HFOs, the OCS Fellowships Director and, as of this year, the Dean of the College and members of the faculty...
Finally, Nordhaus suggests discrepancies of effectiveness within each House, and this, too seems misleading. While some discrepancies surely exist given differences in experience, to suggest that HFOs hold an applicants fate in their hands is facile and ultimately harmful. It seems virtually impossible for HFOs to "play favorites" or for House letters to be inadequate...
...Whitmanesque to suggest that it is the hurly-burly pleasures of democracy -- pluralism incarnate -- that pulled Americans back downtown? Old cities are architecturally eclectic places, where Queen Anne turrets bump up against an International Style library. On a single block, even in a single building, people work as well as live as well as shop. In good cities, infants in Apricas share sidewalks with octogenerians, Salvadoran immigrants with manicured executives. In good cities, eras and generations and races and pursuits are a jumble. Serendipity and surprise are the point...
...were signed by Lorenzo, who critics suggest is responsible for many of Texas Air's woes. Few airline executives elicit as much personal enmity from the troops as he does. And high-level subordinates have not found it easy to deal with the workaholic chairman, who often telephones them late at night with probing questions. Tom Volz, a former Continental senior vice president who now runs Las Vegas-based Sunworld Airways, says Lorenzo is "more interested in new deals than food quality and cleaner planes...
CHRISTIE: Dave, dear, you are so impolite to suggest that about Serge. There are many of us who have no sex lives, dearie...