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Browne's ruling came on a motion filed last summer by two defense attorneys who took over the case after the defendants had dismissed Heller. The two faulted their predecessor for not seeking a quid pro quo when the youngsters confessed, such as a reduced charge or a promise of leniency. Said one of the lawyers, Al Gaudelli: "There was no deal. How is that in his clients' best interests...
...replaced George F. Bennett '33 as Harvard's treasurer in 1973, he quickly began thinking about the reorganization of the University's financial structure. Since 1948, State Street Research and Management, a firm headed by Bennett, had handled Harvard's money. Rejecting the possibility of maintaining the status quo. Putnam instead created a hybrid of two other models for managing large funds: splitting up the portfolio among several investment firms, and creating an internal investment management company...
...Some loans may help to preserve the status quo, but others better the condition of Blacks. Why can't we differentiate?" Putnam said. "I am puzzled by the way students tend to paint all of these things with the same broad brushstrokes...
...That crusade hardly stopped him from living extraordinarily well (the action shifts from the Galbraith "mansion" in Cambridge, to the 235-acre farm in Vermont and to an apartment in Gstaad, Switzerland), but for that he can hardly be faulted. In fact, despite his political battles against the status quo, he seems remarkably pleased with how life has treated him. Certainly, his personal life has been a joy. (It is a man whose marriage is secure indeed who can write, "I have never understood why one's affections must be confined, as once, with women, to a single country...
Western Europe's political leaders have been fairly warned. If there is any discernible mood sweeping the Continent, it is an indiscriminate, throw-the-rascals-out rejection of the status quo. On the same day that Valéry Discard d'Estaing was losing the French presidency to Socialist François Mitterrand, West Berlin voters were giving a similar demonstration of discontent with West German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt's Social Democrats, who had ruled the divided city for 26 years. Tainted by corruption, the city's Social Democratic Party polled a meager 38.4%, its worst...