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...entries, and there were several impressive candidates. I recall in particular a speech delivered on the theme of being an Oklahoman that was one of the finest pieces of oratory I ever had the pleasure of hearing. So you and the committee that chose Ms. Fingerman cannot hide behind the defense that this was the best you could unearth. And if you, yourself, are convinced that this was the best undergraduate speech you had to pick, I can only hope that you would retire from this responsibility in favor of someone who can distinguish brilliance from balderdash...
...four documents on which he had jotted changes. She then typed entirely new memos. Asked if she realized the significance of her doctoring, she snapped, "That was my job, and I wasn't reading or trying to find out what his motives were or what he was trying to hide...
Attitudes are changing as well, officials say. "What we are seeing is that people are less apt to hide behind the safety factor of calling it a gay disease," says Dartmouth's Turco. "A lot of people won't change their habits, but the information is there, and we are getting more of an educated society...
...scorn the sleazy Fleet Street practice of entrapping prominent Brits in love nests. So when the respectable Miami Herald tailed Hart and his friend, it angered Columnist A.M. Rosenthal, until recently the top editor of the New York Times. He indignantly wrote, "I did not become a newspaperman to hide outside a politician's house trying to find out whether he was in bed with somebody." When it comes to scandal, the New York Times is up above the world so high. Its readers must have been puzzled to read that Hart's reputation as a womanizer was well known...
...been detected in nearly 36,000 Americans but may already have infected as many as 1.5 million. Opposing him have been medical professionals led by Surgeon General C. Everett Koop, who contends that mandatory testing would have the undesirable effect of causing many possible carriers of the virus to hide their condition for fear of being stigmatized...