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Much of Rhoda's success derives from its parents, MTM Enterprises and the company's magisterial executive, Grant Tinker, 48. The lean-jawed New Englander who was lucky enough to marry Mary Tyler Moore was also canny enough to surround her with the best talent in the business. "My career," he says, "has been an inexorable march to get as close as I could to the creative product, working through people who made the shows." That march included stints at NBC and 20th Century-Fox, where he developed a sure instinct for commercial comedy and new talent, including...
Second, why have the men surrounding President Bok not pointed out to him that W.E.B. DuBois was a radical all of his life and a COMMUNIST in his last years? It would be more consistent with Harvard's treatment of DuBois and its relationship to the ideas which DuBois spent his life giving substance to if they ceased calling their institute by his name and used some other name, e.g., the Booker T. Washington Institute. Surely the spirit of the men (neither radical nor communist) who surround President Bok in this venture is more in harmony with the spirit...
Streets dividing neighborhoods in Bogota and Lima are lines dividing past and present, and the peasants migrating from the countryside to live in the poblaciones or favelas that surround these cities are re-enacting the demographic changes of 18th century England, when displaced weavers and field laborers streamed into Manchester, Birmingham and London. The crooked spines of the early factory workers are recapitulated in the stooped backs of the Bolivian peasants who carry huge baskets of oranges on their backs. The small farmers of Yorkshire forced off their lands by acquisitive members of the gentry are resurrected in the masses...
...President's main task has to be the restoration of our confidence. He has an absolutely unique and beautiful opportunity to surround himself with the very best leadership this country has to offer. I think it is interesting to note that in Chinese, the character that means "crisis" also means "opportunity...
...hold the President accountable for statutory violations of the criminal law." It is meant to set a higher standard "in constitutional terms." Added McClory: "There is a clear violation of the President's responsibility when he permits multiple acts of wrongdoing by large numbers of those who surround...