Word: transcripts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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SUCH OBVIOUS PARANOIA can't help but recall the embarrassing leak last May, when a transcript of a high-level discussion on enforcement became public. In the course of the meeting, which both Meese and Turnage attended, officials discussed possible political backlash from enforcement, and one suggested targeting politically conservative and quiet regions of the country for the first few indictments. The consideration of such underhand tactics, together with the current fumbling, indicate that a lot more unsavory action may yet be revealed...
...trouble understanding when he was talking privately and when he was not. At dinner with 200 members of the Reserve Officers Association in 1949, Truman got worked up over criticism of his crony, Major General Harry Vaughan, and called Columnist Drew Pearson an "s.o.b." The White House purged the transcript, but it was too late. Gasped the Chicago Sun-Times: "The dirty phrase used by Mr. Truman has shocked millions who feel that every President becomes a symbol for clean-minded youth...
...Maples Stories). The Maples move through an intricate arabesque of estrangements and reunit-ings. Richard slowly decides that the only thing worse than parting is staying together. The author says that the Maples' long travail was not simply a transcript of what the Updikes were going through: "A novel should never seem autobiographical to the writer, autobiographical though it may seem to the reader." But many moments in the Maples stories betray a knowledge of pain too recent to disguise. The occasion arrives when Richard must tell his children he is leaving: "The partition between his face...
...Harvard has a rather firm policy of purging a student's transcript of his on-campus indiscretions after, in Fox's words, "the penalty has been paid." Undergraduates may have to go on academic or disciplinary probation, or may even "requested" to take a term or year off. But in the end, the student's formal transcript shows nothing more than the fact that a leave of absence may have been taken. Many schools are less Jenient...
Sometimes past incidents do accidentally slip out of a clean transcript, of course. Just ask Sen. Edward M. Kennedy '54 (D-Mass.), whose Spanish exam cheating scandal during his undergraduate days is common knowledge. (Kennedy actually got his diploma...