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Better communication could alleviate many of the difficulties the disabled must confront at Harvard. In many cases, ignorance and insensitivity--not structural shortcomings--cause the greatest hardships. A more sensitive atmosphere could temper many of the hardships handicapped students encounter. Finding out exactly what services disabled students want improved could save a great deal of confusion and frustration. When deciding which Houses to make more accessible during upcoming renovations, for example, the University ruled out Leverett Towers--which have accessible rooms--because other House facilities, including the Leverett library and Masters' residence, are not accessible. Instead, Harvard will attempt...
...Force bureaucracy. Tired of running into intellectual brick walls-and afraid that some of his superiors wanted him to cover up the shortcomings of a new airplane-Spinney abruptly resigned his commission in July 1975. For all his outward imperturbability, associates say, he has a powder-keg temper that can be ignited by frustration-though only behind closed doors...
...every move, the vacation soured into a series of spirited confrontations between Grimaldis and paparazzi. Outside his Park Avenue hotel with Socialite Lynn Wyatt, the wife of Texas Oilman Oscar Wyatt and an old family friend, Rainier ran up against a virtual wall of press lenses. Momentarily losing his temper, he reportedly lunged forward and hit one of the photographers, sending the fellow's glasses skittering across the pavement. At a Broadway theater the next night, Rainier was accused of cursing and slugging another paparazzo who clicked when he should have ducked. Later that night, as his father hopped...
...that Whitaker diagnosed anorexia, however, Dempster indulged himself with a lofty and fairly encyclopedic denunciation of Diana's faults. It was he who said that she was spoiled, fiendish and a monster, that she was spending too much money on clothes shaming the nation's upper classes by having temper tantrums that drove staff to resign, and making Charles "desperately unhappy...
...this could be interesting if Kennedy supplied some personal involvement, but the initially sympathetic qualities in O'Brien fade as her political career takes off. As her reformist zeal becomes lust for power, more and more of Kennedy's attention goes to her pleasure in manipulating men, throwing temper tantrums, and other childish antics...