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Meanwhile, the 18-member Faculty Council, the Faculty's elected steering committee, gets back to business this fall with a half-dozen new members after elections in May, but no pressing items on its agenda. In fact, a September 19 meeting, scheduled to deal with any matters of immediate concern, was cancelled...
...involved campaign topics, and Reagan took pains to answer them cautiously. He opened the session on a deliberately partisan note by challenging the Democrat-controlled House of Representatives to act on six pieces of "bottled-up" legislation that form the domestic core of his own re-election platform. The half-dozen purportedly trapped bills include a constitutional amendment requiring a balanced federal budget, a measure allowing spouses working as homemakers to open tax-free individual retirement accounts, tax incentives for the construction of factories in inner-city "enterprise zones," and tuition tax credits for low-and middle-income parents...
...that." Whistler: "You will, Oscar, you will." In all his long career Whistler produced only one painting that enjoyed the same permanent celebrity as this riposte, and it, of course, is Arrangement in Gray and Black, No. 1: Portrait of the Painter's Mother, 1872, one of the half-dozen most famous pictures of the 19th century. The reasons for its fame are obscure and debatable, but the results are plain to see: "Whistler's Mother" swamped the rest of his output, turning him (at least in the eyes of the public after his death) into...
...desperate to become doctors, the makeshift medical schools that dot the Caribbean represent a last chance. Failure to get into graduate schools in the U.S. once meant flying off to universities in Mexico, Italy or the Philippines. Lately, students have been turning to the Caribbean, where in the past half-dozen years 16 profit-making educational enterprises have flourished on the islands of Montserrat, Antigua, St. Lucia, Dominica, Barbados, St. Vincent, Grenada and the Dominican Republic...
...home office, on the top floor of the Busch Reisinger Museum, the work goes on year round. A half-dozen academics, students from the Graduate School of Design, and an occasional undergraduate join in editing manuscripts in preparation for publication, lab analysis, and administrative tasks such as funding and supplies for the excavation. Says F. Conyers Thompson '84, who worked in the office last year: "The books put out by the Sardis group are well received by critics. The work in the field is well respected. "It's one of the more rigid sites in academic and archaeological terms...