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...actions of the masters, which had we notbrought this decision to light would not have beendisclosed, threaten the role of the tutor in thelife of the undergraduates and undermine thetutor's ability to broaden our intellectualhorizons through unrestricted politicaldiscourse," said Rutledge...
...presented as distinct personalities whose actions, however odd, are inevitable and to be accepted. Little Al, age three, is impossibly wise. Margaret, from Memphis, is more than disorderly and is locked up regularly. But she is also "a glamour girl and old-style Southern belle." When the vignettes threaten to stretch credibility, Lemann unerringly interweaves a little writing just for its own sake, perhaps a nature sketch about "the rustling of the leaves, the waning light on the bay . . . the swans on the green lagoon. The drama of the twilight." Such is the light in her book...
...order to give foreign products a fair shake. The E.C. doled out $45 billion in subsidies last year, $4,100 a farmer, even though farming generated a tiny 3.5% of European output. Despite seeking their own, albeit smaller, subsidies from Washington, American farmers resent the E.C.'s largesse and threaten to fight any GATT treaty that fails to curb...
Such petitions threaten to turn once passive annual meetings into rancorous affairs. Two weeks ago, for example, shareholders at Baltimore Gas & Electric asked the company to "voluntarily cap the total pay and other compensation of its executive officers to no more than 20 times the pay of the average employee of the company...
Bush has been known to speak out on the same day for both union and nonunion workers, for owls and loggers, for the environment and the industries that threaten it. When the self-proclaimed Education President needed to unveil a new education policy while addressing students at an Allentown, Pa., high school last week, he borrowed one -- from Clinton. Campaigning in Philadelphia for next week's Pennsylvania primary, Clinton blasted Bush for appropriating a guaranteed-college-loan plan "that has been at the core of my presidential campaign since the day I announced." The Governor quipped, "Now, they...