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...effusive platform welcomes last August in Dallas. Kirkpatrick has reportedly turned down several offers of an ambassadorship, including the prestigious posting to Paris. "I don't know if there is anything in Washington for her," said one White House official, who quickly added, "I mean something that would befit her qualifications...
...month before Pusey assumed office, the Corporation decided the three professors would stay, but Kamin and Markham had been found guilty of "misconduct," because invoking the Fifth did not befit scholars who were, in the Corporation's opinion, devoted the the "pursuit of truth" and free inquiry. Furry, however, who had testified in a second hearing that he had ceased being a communist in 1951 and had admitted to Harvard officials that in 1944 he had lied to FBI officials about a colleague's political affiliations, was found guilty of "grave misconduct"--grounds for dismissal...
WHATEVER THE merits of the case, O'Neill's opening salvo was hasty. As the Democratic strong man, O'Neill must appear responsible. He should not have gratuitously attacked the First Lady, and his comments about Reagan's work habits and intelligence do not befit his own stature. It may be true that Reagan works little and vacations a lot, but he should leave that kind of criticism to Democratic back-benchers. The Speaker of the House does not have to resort to insults to get his job done...
Like many prominent poets and playwrights, West Indies-born Derek Walcott, 52, is much in demand as a college lecturer and teacher. And, as may befit a writer, he has a teaching style that, by his own description, can seem "deliberately personal and intense." But for one Harvard University freshman coed, it was more than that. The young woman, who took a poetry workshop that Walcott taught as a visiting professor last semester, has made an official complaint to the university accusing him of sexual harassment...
...just prefering to save his money. His campaign promises waxed even more rhetorical than did those of the major party candidates--one idea he put forth in an interview was to dig up the White House rose garden and replace it with basic vegetables, plants he thought would better befit his less-than-imperial presidency. His economic ideas seemed just as obviously designed for that air of out-of-step impossibility mixed with seriousness that catches the camera's eye. Instead of calling for massive public works projects like Fred Harris and the other leftist candidates, McCarthy sounded almost Repulbican...