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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Igor was posted as a diplomat to the Soviet embassy in Washington. In an extraordinarily straightforward way, he phoned the home of CIA Director Richard Helms and talked to his then-wife Julia. Igor offered to become a double agent, or, in Le Carré's famous term, a "mole," who would burrow deeply into the Soviet espionage network and pass on secrets to the U.S. Julia turned Igor over to her husband, who in turn passed him on to U.S. counterintelligence operatives...
Undergraduates who hesitate to stop out for fear of seeming too nonconformist might contemplate the example of their professors, who generally take a sabbatical every seven years; Bennington College, which has for four decades required its students to leave campus each winter and work for a term; or former Haverford President John R. Coleman, who once left his office and hired himself out for two months as a dishwasher, garbage collector, and in other unscholarly trades. Even more assuring is the case of Stanford Grad Margaret Doerr. She enrolled in the class of 1931 and finally graduated last August...
...scandal over his secretary, Elizabeth Ray, Hays is now running for the Ohio house of representatives. Is it a comedown to be aiming for Columbus instead of Washington? Not at all, says Hays, drawing a grand historical analogy: "Look at John Quincy Adams-he was defeated for his second term as President and then proceeded to serve in the House of Representatives until the day he died...
...seasons to the different stages in a man's life has long been a common practice for writers of the most varied sort--psychologists, novelists and playwrights through the ages have all taken up the phrase. But no one has ever gone beyond the literary use of the term to explore just what the concept of seasons in a man's life really means. Although psychologists Erik Erikson and Jean Piaget have discovered, through intensive study and observation of children, that people go through a given sequence of developmental phases in the early years of life, no full-scale...
...associate dean, a post Vorenberg assumed in February, he is concerned with long-term planning and curricular development. Vorenberg is also currently concluding a five-year stint as master of Dunster House...