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...Leaguer named Sally Quinn admitted during a job interview at the Washington Post that she had never actually written anything, the executive editor joked, "Well, nobody's perfect." Nevertheless, Ben Bradlee hired her and carefully molded her into a Post feature writer. Eight weeks ago he had to relinquish her to the greater power base of the CBS Morning News opposite Barbara Walters (TIME, Aug. 20). Sally moved to Manhattan and the apartment of her longtime friend, Warren Hoge, city editor of the New York Post. But soon she moved out again (Hoge had also been seeing Socialite Amanda...
When he filed his bill last year, Kennedy promised to modify the measure on the basis of reactions from the 12,000 permanent and 33,000 seasonal residents of the Nantucket Sound Islands. The reactions were bitterly divided. The Vineyard's permanent residents did not want to relinquish home rule, and 60% of them voted against the bill in a referendum last fall. Summer people, who pay property taxes but do not vote, would be given a share in administering the trust, and they generally favored the bill as the best way to preserve the islands' natural qualities...
...Given that we all must tighten our belts, the Kraus plan is a valiant effort at compromise between the two extremes of opinion about aid to graduate education--those who call for totally merit-based funding and those who advocate a strict set of need criteria. We will not relinquish our merit scholarships; they are essential to the quality of graduate education...
Nahigian will not relinquish his baseball duties at Providence because of the Harvard job. He will continue as Friar head man in addition to his fall responsibilities in Cambridge...
...leaders were not eager to relinquish all organizational individuality, and Petrilli was reluctant to press too hard. Members continue to give gang salutes. "The guys still identify as members," admitted Rudy, "but it's more like belonging to a political party...