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While completion of the tedious, drawn-out investigative process offers some hope for resolution of the GSD's problems, the odds actually remain slim that the GSD will emerge from the thicket of charge and countercharge that has surrounded it for so long. There are several reasons why escape appears unlikely. First, the long report of the Hartman Review Committee suffers from ambiguity and information gaps that will prevent the faculty from resolving the affair without another in-depth review. Secondly, broad questions of what due process and academic freedom mean in practical application requires University-level study and definition...
...volume and silvery space, the very essence of the relationship between mathematics and nature in which the quattrocento's self-image was rooted. No Renaissance painter has spoken more eloquently to the 20th century than Piero, with his vision of a sublimely abstract order dwelling in a thicket of concrete and manifest forms-figures, architecture, drapery; and because there were so few known paintings by him (apart from the great fresco cycle in Arezzo), the night's work in Urbino seemed less of a theft than a lobotomy. "The theft of the Raphael and the Piero della Francesca...
...more general question of the proper role of a First Lady with regard to public issues, I believe our First Ladies should be free to enter the political thicket whenever they think it appropriate. Some First Ladies have shunned nearly all public involvement; others have concentrated on noncontroversial causes; and a few, like Eleanor Roosevelt, have been in the forefront of the struggle for social and political change. There is no right or wrong answer; there is only the personal answer each First Lady gives...
...great fun with all that snobbery, and in the second installment "Lost in the Whichy Thicket," he talked about The New Yorker writing style...
...player. While more restless freshmen like John F. Kennedy avoided the tedium of the House floor as much as possible, Ford attentively followed debate and parliamentary maneuvers. In his second term, he landed a seat on the Appropriations Committee and became an expert on the defense budget, an intimidating thicket of statistics that most Congressmen shunned. "He had a tremendous capacity for work," says his half brother Tom. "And let's face it, people who have a capacity for work normally succeed...