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...earned the high esteem of fellow career agents because of the backbone he exhibited as chief of the FBI General Investigative Division in Washington, where he was in charge of the bureau's initial digging into the Watergate scandal in 1972. He and several other agents wanted to conduct an aggressive investigation that might well have led them to the White House officials who ran the Watergate coverup. But Acting FBI Director L. Patrick Gray was reluctant to push the probe, especially after the CIA, at the instigation of White House aides, urged him to restrict the inquiry, ostensibly...
...Money he has recovered the gently acerbic touch that he displayed as a reformist capitalist, and that made popular such books as The Affluent Society and the New Industrial State. Sample putdown: "Those who talk of money and teach about it and make their living by it gain prestige, esteem and pecuniary return, as does a doctor or a witch doctor, from cultivating the belief that they are in privileged association with the occult ... Though professionally rewarding and personally, profitable, this too is a well-established form of fraud...
...reflects a positivistic attitude. It's a mirror to our present world with some adventure thrown in." Another academician who gives the show high marks is Astronomy Professor Leo Standeford, who has conducted a one-credit course in Star Trek at Minnesota's Mankato State University. His esteem is shared by the Smithsonian Institution, which has acquired a model of the Enterprise. Paramount is now planning to make a Star Trek movie. Glubegk enkov (Live long and prosper), as Vulcanites would say. Spock...
...next four years of your life than any other administrator. Master of the Faculty and keeper of its budget in a school where teachers call most of the shots, Rosovsky must be brilliant and a politician at the same time. He fulfills both roles well and has the esteem of even the most jealous colleagues. This year will definitely be Rosovsky's most publicized, with Doris Kearns coming up for tenure and his all-important educational task forces due to start reporting their findings...
...pretty loose about grades but they are valuable for your own self-esteem. If someone gives you a B, he's saying you're just not as smart as the next guy who gets an A. It hurts. It's not particular to Harvard. It's the way the grade system works...