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...moved across the bridge and created the Business School parking lot. Then they created the shuttle service." "Since we now have a picnic for senior citizens in the Yard once a year...and since that is their favorite picnic spot, any Corporation member suggesting [paving the Yard] will be burnt at the stake right in the Harvard Yard...
...before Israel's latest assault. More than anything else, the vivid television coverage of Israel's relentless pummeling of civilian areas has altered the President's thinking. Referring to one powerful image broadcast a week ago, an aide says: "That picture of the baby with arms burnt had more impact on him than 50 position papers." An Administration aide attaches even more importance to the President's gut-level reactions. "Reagan," he says, "gets 50% of his foreign policy from Dan Rather...
...idea was the reverse of body building. Instead of adding bulk and then sculpting down, I went to 157 and added on in increments of an ounce here, an ounce there." Stallone slimmed mainly on a daily diet of ten raw egg whites and a quarter slice of burnt toast-"so it would contain no water." The daily routine: two miles running, 18 rounds of sparring, two hours of weight lifting, a nap, another run and no dinner. The result: a 47-in. chest, a 29½-in. waist. Stallone managed to achieve an incredibly low body-fat level...
...clearly my own temptation towards cynicism and self-interest. As an antidote, I find myself in these last few days in Cambridge trying to remember the right choices that went into my four years here a fascinating class on American architecture, dozens of Crimsons escapades, sitting in a burnt orange Gran Torino in the middle of Mattapan at three in the morning drinking Budweiser beer out of bar bottles with two non-Harvard buddies from 'Milton. That last memory may not seem very educational, productive, or frankly, important. But it is mine. It is part of what I alone chose...
...Dutch Shea Jr. get to be such a burnt-out case? There is the immediate anguish caused by the death of his adopted daughter Catherine. "Cat" was dismembered by an I.R.A. bomb in a London restaurant. Shea also fears the impending blast of an audit. He has misused funds from estates he was supposed to oversee. Fear and shame are magnified because his father was a lawyer who hanged himself in prison, where he was serving time for embezzlement...