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Speakes, who would not win a personal popularity contest among the White House media corps, has nurtured the most successful era of public esteem for a President that we have had in the past 40 years, even including the Iran-arms downer. A predecessor, Jody Powell, who was Jimmy Carter's press secretary and might win the corps's popularity vote, presided over a disastrous loss of presidential prestige. Is there cause and effect? Is the great old White House press corps hooked on calamity? Can Good-Guy Marlin break the cycle...
Although modern-day students clamor for more openness in the disciplinary process, their 19th century predecessor's wanted to keep things a little more private. Following widespread student complaint, the faculty in 1897 abolished the practice of "posting," or publishing the names of students who had been found guilty of breaking Harvard rules...
Administration spokesmen dispute such charges, claiming that the Reagan Administration has filed more civil rights prosecutions than any predecessor. But that argument was undercut last week by the resignation of Joseph Cooper, one of the highest-ranking blacks in the Administration, as head of the Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs. "There seems to be a resurgence of racism," said Cooper, "and there are those who feel they can get away with it because of their perception of this Administration. There is no question that there is a perception that the Reagan Administration has not done much for minorities...
...Gloves boxer and a decorated World War II bomber pilot, retreat under fire on the tax issue. "I have not called for a tax increase," he said. "I have suggested postponing any further tax decreases for the very wealthiest taxpayers." Says Christopher Matthews, a former aide to Wright's predecessor Tip O'Neill: "Wright is going to be feisty, and I'll bet you'll see him get off to a real fast start...
Perhaps a paradigm for Bok's 15th year is the outrageous dictum issued last week by Samuel C. Butler, president of the Board of Overseers, Harvard's alumni-elect governing body. In the notorious tradition of his immediate predecessor, Joan T. Bok, Butler has attempted to cut the board off from the community at large and restrict the free speech of its members. The New York lawyer issued a letter that warned overseers against allowing "leaks" to members of the press, recommending that any media inquiry receive "a no comment, followed by a polite goodbye." Though President...