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...case, the conflict between Guinier and the central administration took its toll. Guinier, who had been appointed by Pusey to chair the committee overseeing DuBois's development, refused to convene the Faculty committee until the administration changed its stand. Neither the administration nor Guinier would budge, and for nearly two years no action was taken on the Institute's behalf...
...boys, or men, arrive, and it gradually becomes clear that class escalation has taken a toll. Stripping away the complex humanity of Storey's characterizations, one sees that the eldest son has become an acerbic, vengeful fire brand; the middle son, a priggish, glossy Establishment apologist; and the young est a haunted, weepy, torn-apart teacher. What is immediately apparent is that the emotional ground between parents and sons has been land-mined. Affections that are not actually felt are masked in billboards ("To the finest mother and the finest dad") while genuine feelings of tenderness are muted...
...Chancellor has sunk into fits of melancholy before, but this time the image of a listless Brandt took its toll at the polls. In a series of state and city elections, the S.P.D. suffered setbacks ranging from 6% to 10%, compared with 1970. Experts were predicting that the Socialists would lose a June 9 election in the state of Lower Saxony, even though Brandt has promised to campaign there personally. The most Europe-minded of the Continent's leaders, he was also saddened by the insistence of Britain's new Labor government that it would "renegotiate" the terms...
While the race moved well, the cold and the slippery roads took their toll. Only six of the 26 starters finished (and one of those, John Baldo, fell and got back up to complete the race...
...drought has claimed an equally grim toll in parts of Ethiopia. Provincial bureaucrats kept the horrific dimensions of the catastrophe secret from Addis Ababa, fearing that bad news would anger and embarrass Emperor Haile Selassie and perhaps lead to their own dismissal. Finally, last spring, the number of deaths grew so great that the bureaucrats had to admit their existence and ask for international aid. At first the drought seemed confined to eastern Ethiopia. But a new government survey uncovered big pockets of famine to the south and southeast of the capital. In Bale province alone an estimated...