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...right, of course, about the colors." And, of course, he was right about the colors. I.A. Richards wouldn't have said it if he hadn't believed it was true, any more then the theist or atheist volunteers of for that matter the cat who would not refrain from clawing the furniture when he thought that was in the nature of cats. So I decided and still decide that I liked I.A. Richards, and I liked the theist an atheist volunteers, and I liked the cat, and with all its failings I even like Harvard. And if this still...
...other day Kissinger sat at the round table in the corner of his office in the White House, a melancholy place now. Something Chou En-lai had told him on his first visit to China came back with special poignancy, almost like a poetic refrain. "There is turmoil under the heavens, and we have the opportunity to end it," Chou had said in the summer of 1971. That line-that language-alone was almost enough to make Kissinger an admirer of Chou's. It is Kissinger's purpose for being. His deep worry is that the chance...
...attempted robbery victim received a knife cut on the arm while using a fourth floor stairwell in Holyoke Center. The Harvard Police urged all employees to refrain when possible from using the stairs to travel between floors...
...because the stocks that their pension funds invest in have gone down. The dive has mystified even top corporate executives. Robert Oster, senior vice president of California's Bank of America, the nation's largest, reports that on a recent nationwide tour he kept hearing the same refrain from corporate clients: "How the hell can we be that low on the market when our company is in such great shape...
...President retreated on another important front. He will no longer insist, he revealed in the statement, that his aides refrain from testifying about any conversations with him on grounds of Executive privilege. Now they can talk to investigators about any matter "concerning possible criminal conduct or discussions of possible criminal conduct in the matters presently under investigation." The gesture was not all that grand; no President can claim Executive privilege on any conversation dealing with personal knowledge of a possible crime...