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...Harvard students better positioning in the post-graduation job competition. The former proposition is absurd, the latter dubious; it is unlikely that a potential employer would weigh the designation cum laude on a resume above all the other characteristics a student would bring to the job, specially if the transcript accompanying the resume is full of E-pluses or B-minuses...
...woman candidate but as an American I think I should say nothing about the Ferraro candidacy but I will speak now as a woman so I will comment on Ferraro as a woman and how her campaign has affected American women." No, that's not an exact transcript. But it's close enough. And it typifies the problem of Tuesday's coverage: too much time and too little...
...thirties compared with its present incarnation resembled a country crossroad. The streetcars still clanged along Massachusetts Avenue, and the newsboys under the shelter of the kiosk leading into the subway sang out the list of newspapers, the Boston Herald, the Boston Globe, the Evening American, the Evening Transcript and the Boston AD-VA-TISA, like an incantation. On the first warm days of spring there would be the usual "spring riots" on the part of high-spirited undergraduates, who threw rolls of toilet paper out the windows of their ancient dormitories in the Yard, or snake-danced through the Square...
...said," We all have a duty to die." It was the Denver Post that changed the "we" to "you" and added the elderly and terminally ill, to whom I had not referred in my speech. The Post ran a -correction later, after being confronted with its own transcript, but the damage had already been done, and the national news services (and TIME) carried the misquote. Is it possible for politicians to discuss serious subjects without risking even more serious misunderstandings...
...SEEM petty to harp on how Reagan looks in a verbatim transcript. Most people's everyday speech would look atrocious transcribed word for word. But the content made no more sense than the phrasing; Reagan, was being asked to explain his views on specific issues and he should be able to communicate ideas, if not a fact or two as well...