Word: dealing
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...This was part of a deal," said Alison Franklin '90, an aid to Senate President Thomas F. Birmingham '72, who has been one of the strongest champions of education reform...
...Over six decades, Schlesinger has divided himself between the roles of historian (author, notably, of the three-volume "The Age of Roosevelt," about FDR) and activist-courtier. His memoir assembles an all-star cast, with anecdotes and subplots playing through the grand events of the Depression and the New Deal, of World War II and the postwar years when the Cold War set in, and Schlesinger was a leader of the American "NCL" - the valiantly anti-Stalinist, noncommunist left...
...Schlesinger can be self-important (the dinners on Martha's Vineyard with movie stars, the lunches at Manhattan's Mortimer's restaurant with the society crowd). He indulges the old New Deal intellectual's habit of bashing business and businessmen in an almost recreational way. (At one point he blithely equates capitalism with sexism and racism.) But even his smugness has a certain hilarious pungency. He records the time in London toward the end of the war when a V-1 bomb fell close by; everyone else in his office fell to the floor, but as a coworker's journal...
...chance, 1 out of 20 polls will be off the mark, and we make a big deal out of that one poll," he says...
...didn't work. Nailing three straight points, Harvard got to game point with a kill from the outside. After Holy Cross sided out and aced a serve to pull to 14-4, senior outside hitter Angela Lutich sided out with a kill. Sophomore setter Mindy Jellin quickly closed the deal with a tricky dump to midcourt...