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Further evidence of Spence's interest in the GSAS is a high-level faculty committee he is in the process of appointing to study the GSAS. This committee, to be headed by Leverett Professor of Physics Karl Strauch, will provide the first comprehensive look at the GSAS since...
Mondale announced the appointment of two blacks to high-level campaign posts. Maynard Jackson will serve as a senior counselor on policy matters. For the key job of directing voter-registration drives, Mondale rewarded a black who had supported him from the beginning of his candidacy: Detroit Mayor Coleman Young. The candidate also promised, if elected, to seek the advice of blacks on administering social programs...
...know how Geraldine Ferraro is going to feel about national politics after this experience. I think the price for participation in high-level politics in our society is very, very high-for both men and women. One lives under continual scrutiny and criticism, much of it unfair. It is a very harsh game, and I do not think women want whatever it is at the end of that particular rainbow badly enough to pursue it. There are already more opportunities for women in politics than there are women ready to pay the price. I do not doubt a woman could...
Prosecutors insist that in the unraveling of high-level criminal conspiracies, it usually takes a scoundrel to catch one. Says H. Richard Uviller, a criminal-law professor at Columbia University and former Manhattan prosecutor: "You'd love to have witnesses who are all picked for their virtue and sterling characters, but it doesn't always happen that way. And so you take them where you find them." Assistant U.S. Attorney Robert Perry made the same point to the De Lorean jury in the words of an old lawyers' axiom: "For a plot hatched in hell...
...nearly five weeks the U.S. and the Soviet Union have been sparring over the possibility of resuming a high-level dialogue. The question first arose when Moscow surprised the Reagan Administration by proposing a meeting in Vienna on Sept. 18 to begin negotiating a ban on weapons in space. The U.S. accepted, but said that it also wanted to talk about earthbound nuclear arms. Last week it became clear that neither side was willing to meet the other's terms, and that the prospects for a fall Vienna parley were growing...