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Could he have foreseen all that so soon followed he would probably have chosen the lesser evil and have saved the ship by killing the whale even at the expense of losing the rudder. For the monster took a turn off about 300 yards ahead, then turning short came around with his utmost speed and again struck the ship a tremendous blow with his head and with such force as to stove in the whole bow at the water's edge. One of the men who was below at the time came running upon deck saying "The ship...
...sixth month in power, the has-beens have helped put Washington in a mild dither. For one thing, there are more of them around than ever before: three vigorous former Presidents, two former Vice Presidents, six former First Ladies, scores of former Cabinet officers and literally hundreds of their lesser aides and consultants. Some, like Jimmy Carter, have been discreetly silent. Nonetheless, the has-beens form an army of sorts that marches through the hearing rooms. the banquet halls and the panel shows. leaving its public assessments of Reagan and its private disagreements with what he is doing...
...options had been considered, a telephone call interrupted the Cabinet meeting. It was Israeli Defense Force Chief of Staff, Lieut. General Rafael Eitan. He tersely informed Begin that the attack had been a total success. For a further 70 minutes, the Cabinet considered how Israel should cope with the lesser danger of one of the Israeli warplanes being shot down or crashing on its return journey. A little before 7 p.m., another telephone call announced the safe return of all aircraft. Jubilantly, the gathering celebrated the event, and the meeting broke up. Begin had only one other chore to perform...
...Minister in his reach, Kitchen gave a splenetically injudicious "twenty-five-minute speech and a fifteen-second interview" that blasted his career. Beached by the tides of power, the political leviathan shrank to a minnow, indulged as the darling of his party's young hotbloods. This is the lesser half of an in-depth study in remorse. As much a philanderer as a workaholic, Kitchen neglected and betrayed his wife to the point of heartbreak and death. The memory haunts him ("Why did you die, my dear?"), and as he whimpers and then howls his wife's name...
According to the report, 18 departments are still underutilizing women in tenured positions and nine in non-tenured positions. Two departments have too few minority professors and five have too few minorities in ladder positions. Moreover, the same dearth of women and minorities exists--though to a slightly lesser degree--at administrative, professional and support staff levels throughout the University...