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There are a couple of other important people at Harvard, but for the most part they are either ahead or behind you. Fred Jewett, dean of admissions, has already exhausted his say on your stay at Harvard, and Dr. Chase N. Peterson '52, vice president for alumni affairs and development and Harvard's top fundraiser, leave you alone until you graduate...
...Chase N. Peterson '52, vice president for alumni affairs and development, went on local talk show a few years back when he was Harvard's dean of admissions. He talked about Harvard and truckdrivers. "Truckdriving is still an honorable and well-paid profession," Peterson said. "All youngsters are not equipped to go to college... all of them have different aptitudes and attitudes." Harvard fit into things thusly: "Harvard stands for excellence and high standards and there is nothing wrong with that." The Boston Globe called Peterson "outspoken" for all that, which is true in that a lot, maybe most...
...strange neighborhoods and traffic. At one point in Queens, he made a wrong turn, nearly hit another car in circling to correct his mistake-and was pursued by two angry men in the other car. Rattled, Bronfman sped up, and both vehicles raced past a police car, which gave chase and stopped them. Only quick word radioed to local police by FBI agents trailing discreetly at a distance prevented a disastrous delay that could have aborted the ransom delivery...
...Chevy Chase...
Quint, the shark catcher, initially dismisses his partners' charges of divine intelligence or beauty as hogwash. "Don't make him out to be more than he is. He's just a dumb garbage bucket." But as the chase goes on, he finds himself more drawn to the fish, almost hypnotized into the death duel. "Brody saw fever in Quint's face--a heat that lit up his dark eyes, an intensity that drew his lips back from his teeth in a crooked smile, an anticipation that strummed the sinews in his neck and whitened his knuckles." To Quint the fish...