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...chums Jimmy Carter brought with him to Washington has found himself the subject of more attention, flattering or otherwise, than Hamilton Jordan, the young (33), feet-up presidential pal and political strategist who is the White House's closest equivalent to a chief of staff. Last week was particularly grim for Jordan, both personally and professionally. Late in the week, he was hurriedly summoned home to Albany, Ga., after his father, Richard Jordan, 69, a retired insurance agent and former Army major, suffered a stroke (he died the following day). Earlier, Jordan and the White House as a whole...
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Peter S. McKinney, administrative dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences (GSAS), said yesterday the bill would "obviously decrease the number of tenured jobs," but added that it would be only "a small perturbation in an already grim picture...
...situation at Harvard seems grim, it's no more grim than at many other colleges in Boston. Other schools are coping with the dilemma posed by high student interest and lack of funding in various ways...
...only prisoners known to have walked away from Phong Saly are five of a group of 15 Thai nationals released from Laotian jails last month as a gesture of reconciliation. They tell a grim tale of forced labor, undernourishment and disease. Said one: "We were so thin, so hungry that we even tried to roast toads. We pleaded for medicine, but the doctor wouldn't give us any. We thought we would die." Others told of three prisoners thrown into tiger cages for having killed and eaten a guard's dog; one Thai claimed that disease had killed...