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Increasingly overburdened with committee work and a heavy student counseling load, minority professors wonder whether law schools are as committed minorities as they once were. Add to that an alarming exodus of minority lawyers from the teaching profession, and many law professors say they find themselves increasingly discouraged and disappointed with their profession...
There was also the famous "all or nothing" routine. We'd load up a shopping cart not only with beer, but with other household essentials--kitty litter, laundry detergent and the like. If the clerk asked for ID, we'd say defiantly, "Well, if you're not going to sell us beer, we're not going to buy any of this other stuff either! As a matter of fact we're never going to shop here again." It seldom worked...
...American people about the Libyan Crisis. Then, the nation learned that American arms had been sent to Iran. Mr. Reagan went on television, delaying The Cosby Show, to tell voters he'd sent a few spare parts to a couple of "moderate" ayatollahs. Less than a plane load, he said. Later, we were told that perhaps $1 billion in "spare parts" had been shipped to the volatile Middle East nation...
...quiet way, he carried a heavy load." That was how West Point's yearbook for the class of 1950 described Graduating Cadet Fidel V. ("Eddie") Ramos. It was a prescient judgment. Since he became Chief of Staff of the armed forces of the Philippines ten months ago, General Ramos has shouldered more than his share of the decision-making burden within President Corazon Aquino's fledgling government...
...Spawning Run, though ostensibly about salmon fishing, is actually an essay on the ancient sport of cuckoldry. Vacationing in Britain, the narrator and his wife put up at a fusty old angling hotel in Wales. Every morning a Wodehouse-load of stuffed shirts set off to the salmon water, tackle in hand. Among them goes "poor Holloway," a somewhat seedy chap of dubious breeding who has yet to catch a salmon in 20 years of trying. Meanwhile, the "salmon widows" wait restlessly back at the hotel -- for Holloway to sneak away from the river to yet another noonday tryst. Just...