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...middle name trend had thus become a middle initial trend. It lasted until September of 1881, when James A. Garfield got shot and killed by someone he passed over for a job. (Actually, Chester Arthur sometimes used his middle initial--A. for Alan--but he was terribly unpopular and apparently proposed to a 19-year old while in office...

Author: By John A. Cloud, | Title: What's in a (Middle) Name? | 11/6/1991 | See Source »

...handful of actors have enough box-office clout to get produced pretty much any show they want to appear in. One is George C. Scott, who last came to Broadway in 1986 as an aging, derelict Huck Finn in an unpopular bit of myth debunking called The Boys in Autumn. Now Scott is back as a quintessential foxy grandpa, all harmless cuss words and mock-fierce benevolence, in a sentimental 1938 comedy-drama about an old man's battle of wits with death, personified as the prissy bureaucrat Mr. Brink. Scott's new role may be at the opposite...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Candy Box | 10/28/1991 | See Source »

Exactly. If the UC wants a PR officer for the sake of creating a position, that's fine. If the UC wants a PR officer for the sake of providing better spin control, that's pathetic. Student governments--like student newspapers--are supposed to be unpopular. If you can't take the abuse, quit...

Author: By Michael R. Grunwald, | Title: Lame, Lame, Lame | 10/18/1991 | See Source »

...closer look at Clinton's record belies his newly discovered moderate views. In the '70s, Clinton won initial praise as a business-bashing consumer advocate-type state Attorney General. In his first term as governor, he piloted unpopular highway taxes through a hostile legislature. He commuted more death sentences than any previous governor. He had a solid environmental record...

Author: By John A. Cloud and Of LITTLE Rock, S | Title: Chameleon Candidate | 9/18/1991 | See Source »

That doesn't mean Harvard should have an honor code. At Princeton, the mandatory student pledge to report cheaters is unpopular and apparently causes more trouble than it is worth. Chad Muir, the chair of Princeton's student honor committee, says that out of the twenty of so cases that are reported each year, only one or two result in a conclusion of guilt...

Author: By William H. Bachman, | Title: A Matter of Trust | 9/13/1991 | See Source »

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