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...wont, though, Restic later softened his view by a trifle. "Princeton is in it as much as we are," he said. That statement might very well prove true--if there's a hurricane or if the Tigers' defense bottles up Jim Kubacki the way Dartmouth's did throughout much of last week's contest...
...South approach to voters is cooler than the delivery of the hot stump speechifiers of another era. Carter tells crowds: "When I'm in the White House, you'll have a friend there." In contrast, a prewar Georgia Governor and populist, gallus-snappin' Eugene Talmadge, was wont to tell his crowds: "Come see me at the mansion after I'm elected, and we'll set on the front porch and piss over the rail at them city bastards." Carter quotes Reinhold Niebuhr and Bob Dylan rather than traditional Southern heroes. He is more self-disciplined...
Jaeger, a board member of his family's power tool company and "independently wealthy" as he is wont to say, decided to create an educational alternative to lectures and exams while an undergraduate at Ohio State. "I was looking for something beyond common experience," he explains, "and traveling around the world seemed a good place to start. Later as a grad student at the Harvard Education School, I put together a program for which I could find no precedent. I studied one special school that traveled by ship to various distant ports, but it seemed to me that more...
...media is wont to do with potentially controversial material, it picked up Davis's views, exposed them to the public, and parked furor, causing Davis to regret his role in the whole affair...
...Harvard doesn't "own" the NLRB, as the union is wont to charge, it does engage in behavior which would rankle even the most ordinarily unflappable organizer. Harvard's research in the District 65 case was apparently so good that it saved Fuchs's secretaries countless trips to the archives--Fuchs simply decided to use information provided in Harvard briefs in his decision to the near-complete exclusion of union testimony. "If they say it, it's got to be right," complains Leslie Sullivan, District 65's Med Area organizer...