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...hostages held in Iran ("They shouldn't have been there six days, let alone six months") was thrown back at him as the world watched. He was chastened. But one of Reagan's strengths is that at such moments, he has an extraordinary control of his temper. Common sense crowds out darker impulses, and after eating crow for half an hour on prime time, the President -- and the country -- mercifully moved on. Now, like his predecessor, Reagan is learning that moving the fleet and grimacing on television have little effect on a fanatic...
...twice fired. Will I be tagged a troublemaker? Why does my secretary resent picking up my laundry and balancing my checkbook? My boss throws temper tantrums. What do I do? Well, you could ask Andy. In a column published each Wednesday in the San Jose Mercury News, Andrew Grove, president of Intel, a semiconductor manufacturer, answers questions about the woes of the workplace. Since last October, Grove has been dealing with two letters a week in the column "High Output Management," which has been modeled after "Dear Abby...
...grandchild; did you hear the delightful joke he made about Marx and the British Museum? Yes, but one has to watch the silver; just because he is educated and urbane does not mean he is soft. Clearly, he is out to kill Star Wars. And he does have a temper. And so on. Only after long bouts of fruitless peering does one realize, again, that to scrutinize a Soviet leader is to scrutinize the Soviet state, and the state is a monument to impermeability...
...youngest brother Eddie, the current flash of Springs Valley High, resembles him too. "The same mannerisms, the same temper--no, temperament," says Coach Gary Holland, whose first year at Springs Valley was Larry's last. "I was getting on Eddie the other day, and he was so upset he decided to put one in left-handed from the right side of the basket. We all just shook our heads." Last month, when the N.B.A. All-Stars were weekending in Indianapolis, Bird returned to the Springs Valley gymnasium, where his mural looks down like a chapel Madonna. He recollects, "I hadn...
...letter. He is not urging Black's to become something they are not; on the contrary, the Doctor is adamantly against both assimilation and the abandonment of one's social responsibility. He leaves it to the discretion of the student as to how much he or she should "temper" his or her parochial givens with cosmopolitan interactions...