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...record since 1978 indicates that Harvard has failed to enforce its existing policies with sufficient vigor; that the content of these policies should be expanded and strengthened; and that a regular system of monitoring and reporting the implementation of Harvard's policies should be instituted...
...vigor of the book lies not in this intractable couple but in the hardy supporting cast. Senator Harry Victor barely appears, but Billy Dillon, his aide and campaign manager, and Frances Landau the most dedicated and humorless of his female followers, are dead-on figures of political fun, far fresher than the stock characters that people most political fiction...
Brown's company, C.C. Pollen, is the largest seller of the substance in the U.S. Brown sneers at conventional candy bars, describing them as "semipoison," and points to Reagan's vigor at 73 as evidence of bee pollen's healthful effects. "Just look at him," says Brown of the President. "This is one of the few bars you can eat that will improve your health...
...There was little about last week's meetings of the Communist Party Central Committee and the Supreme Soviet that suggested what direction the new leader intended to take. Chernenko has not openly abandoned the modest economic reforms begun by Andropov, but he has not pursued them with great vigor either. He devoted most of his address to the Central Committee to the topics of school reform and greater popular participation in government...
...three states, younger blacks were Jackson's most enthusiastic supporters. In Alabama, he was backed by 67% of black voters aged 18 to 49, compared with 45% of the over-50 crowd. In Florida, 68% of the vim-and-vigor vote went to Jackson while only 52% of older blacks did. "I didn't want to miss the opportunity of voting for a black man for President," said black Mechanic James Powell, 30. Older blacks took a more hard-nosed view. "I just don't feel Jackson can win," said Mondale Supporter Tom Thomas, 57, a retired...