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When the knotty question of alliance cooperation outside the NATO area was raised by U.S. Under Secretary of Defense Fred Ikle, polemics flared. Iklé began by noting amicably that French and Italian participation in the multinational peacekeeping force in Lebanon was a gratifying example of a nascent if limited new role for NATO. But in Central America, which Iklé considered the other powder keg in the world, the European allies had not only failed to support U.S. policy but at times actively undermined it. When Iklé said that the problem was a lack of understanding about...
...practice, there sometimes seems to be a fine line between need and merit. Harvard Admissions Dean L. Fred Jewett 1 admits that if a desirable student 1 reports a substantially higher offer from another college, his office will "reassess" and perhaps up the original cash offer. Harvard has no plans to change its basic tactics. Says Jewett: "We feel that merit awards are not where limited resources should go." But Jewett adds: "If more and more students opted not to come, the university would certainly have to look hard at the policy...
...Clarion-Ledger gave the eight-part education series an investment impressive even by the standards of bigger papers: Reporters Fred Anklam Jr., 28, and Nancy Weaver, 29, crisscrossed the state for four months, arriving unannounced in 40 of the 153 local school districts. Says Anklam: "We tried to catch people unawares." In 51 news stories and 27 editorials, timed to influence a December special session of the legislature, the Clarion-Ledger contended: "Mississippi public schools aren't making the grade." Among the ills cited: per-pupil funding of only $1,965 for 1981-82, vs. a national average...
...disagree with their judgement," L. Fred Jewett '57, dean of admissions and financial aids at Harvard, said this week. "But," he added, "I understand what they are doing...
...first problem that serious hats and hatters face is that most men tend to think they look idiotic wearing one. That is often true, but need not be. Fred Astaire may be God's best human design for a serious hat (or for something more problematic, like the straw boater). But even short fat men, who think that serious hats turn them into Nikita Khrushchev, can usually find one that makes them look better than they deserve. Oddly, women often wear men's hats more handsomely than...