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...economy by cutting personal income taxes and prompting more business investment). As director of the Office of Management and Budget, he should put some ginger into Cabinet debates. In a memo to Reagan that became public just before his selection for OMB was announced, Stockman and a close friend, New York Congressman Jack Kemp, urged the President-elect to declare a "national economic emergency" immediately after Inauguration...
...self-paced exam system, which allows students to schedule their exams at either 9 a.m. or 2 p.m. over three days, the Honor Code at Wellesley is very strict. "You can't ask people if the exam was easy or hard, and you can't talk to a friend if you are upset about an exam, so what you find are multitudes of girls calling their mothers to cry about their finals," Trippe says...
...working for a non-profit oil company, I'd have said they were crazy," Steven Rothstein, one of the original members of CEC, says. "When Joe first came to me with the idea I thought he was crazy. I worked for him for four months because I was his friend. But still I thought it was crazy. Imagine," he adds, "starting a non-profit oil company to help low-income people. It's brilliant. And it takes a lot of guts...
While working on his dissertation at MIT, Liberman ventured into the Yard one quiet fall day in 1972, and met a friend for lunch in the Dudley House cafeteria in Lehman Hall, once the center for many SDS sessions...
...what they did. "If one doesn't have a choice, you can't make any moral judgment whether he is right or wrong," Zhao argues. "I never doubted that things would change," he says, "because it was so ridiculous, so silly, so unreasonable..." His words reflect what one friend calls Zhao's "extreme understanding" and "inner faith." Tolerance let Zhao endure, says Masayuki Ikeda, a Nieman fellow and friend. "Hardship makes...