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...Miami Model Donna Rice provoked intense debate about how far the press should go in reporting about the private lives of public officials. Last week brought the first clear sign that a new epoch is indeed aborning: the Cleveland Plain Dealer drew on unnamed sources to report that two-term Ohio Governor Richard F. Celeste, 49, has been "romantically linked" to three women other than his wife of 25 years, Dagmar. In the ensuing tempest, the Plain Dealer argued that the expose was justified because Democrat Celeste, although not a presidential candidate, was considering becoming one. Earlier in the week...
When Dorothy Parker remarried her ex-husband Alan Campbell in 1950, she looked around during the reception and said, "People who haven't talked to each other in years are on speaking terms again today, including the bride and groom." A corrosive reviewer, Parker once slated a hapless author as a "writer for the ages. For the ages of four to eight." She could be equally cruel to her nearest and dearest. When Alexander Woollcott, a fellow jouster at the Algonquin Round Table, recalled an afternoon of book signing with the smug rhetorical question "What is so rare...
Just before leaving Washington for this week's Venice summit for leaders of the major industrial nations, the President said he had accepted with "great reluctance and regret" the resignation of Federal Reserve Chairman Paul Volcker, 59, effective in August at the end of his second four-year term. His successor, and thus the new Mr. Dollar, will be Alan Greenspan, 61, a highly regarded private economist (and longtime member of TIME's Board of Economists) who served as chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers during the Ford Administration. Said Greenspan last week, after revealing that it took...
...There are various things you could not do without going to the Legislature," says Young. "You could not change the term of service or the franchise, but you could change the nominating process...
Another problem has been the periodic emergence of bitter dialogue between Black student groups and the administration over the role of minority-oriented activities. Among other things, Black organizations have repeatedly called for a minority student center of the sort found at the other Ivy League institutions. "Separatism"--a term that conjures up images of the Black anger and militancy of the late '60s and early '70s--has been the pejorative buzzword associated with efforts to develop an insular Black community at Harvard. Though a critical percentage of Black students likely have never thought about a student center, the issue...