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...which was something of a surprise to the amendment's authors. "We never expected schools like Harvard to react so strenuously over a move to protect the civil rights of students," John Kwapisz, legislative aide to Buckley, says with a tinge of bitterness in his voice...
...house? Hey, whatsa matter with you? I'm just trying to be friendly." Some women consider such comments complimentary. Many find them an invasion of privacy. On a street late at night, they are threatening. But no matter how women feel about these jibes, the authors say, they all react the same way. Lowering our heads to the ground, they say, we pretend to fumble in our purses, or stare straight ahead and go on. The more arrogant among us may call it "not giving him the satisfaction of a response." But the authors say it is something more deeply...
...unable to unite on recommendations for what the final draft of the Harvard report should contain. According to persons from several community groups, the present interim report contains no overt clues as to the direction Harvard will take in its future development. Bowyer said he found it difficult to react to a report that contains "many abstractions and an assortment of alternatives...
...Koch's most convincing arguments is that he didn't teach in some exclusive private school, where most children go home every day to an environment of encouragement, where literate, college-educated parents could react to poems, and where children could benefit from "acquired tastes." Instead, Koch taught at P.S.61 on Manhattan's lower East Side, where more than half the kids are black or Puerto Rican. And his results--at least those that were published--are impressive. For example, Koch asked a fourth grader to translate one sense into another and she wrote...
...smiling when Ted announced his intention not to run for President, but Joan Kennedy's personal misfortunes continue. Driving in McLean, Va., in the early afternoon last week, she failed to react in time to a traffic signal and plowed her white, 1971 Pontiac convertible into the rear of a green Capri, which in turn collided with still another car. No one was injured, although the damage to the three cars was estimated to be close to $1,400. Joan was exceedingly apologetic, unhappy but not tearful...