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...Some view his patriotic urgings as advancing the cause of a shrill jingoism. Others have charged that he remains too much the CEO, running the national pastime as though it were just a large corporation. The most serious difficulties Ueberroth has had as commissioner, however, are related to his request that all major league baseball players submit to unscheduled tests for illegal drug use. Although many appear to agree with the commissioner's get-tough approach, others have vehemently criticized his plan, saying it violates a legal tradition of authorizing a search only when there is "probable cause" of misconduct...
That final request applies not just to Bayard but to everyone who enters the dense, diffracted world of Expensive Habits. What Margaret Flood calls "the unflattering double vision of time" renders nearly everything that passes under her scrutiny as fused contradictions. With the best will in the world, people fail each other. Careful planning gives way to absurd accidents. There is a shocking death in this book, but the circumstances that lead up to it seem as fanciful and inevitable as the consequences that follow...
Former White House Counsel Fred Fielding was dragged into the growing mess by a member of the congressional panel, Representative Gerald Sikorski, Democrat from Minnesota. Sikorski charged that during a conflict-of-interest review of Deaver in February 1985, Fielding responded to a request from the Government Ethics Office by providing "incomplete information beneficial to Mr. Deaver" the day after an associate of Deaver's approached Fielding about going to work for Deaver's firm. Fielding denied that he had done anything improper...
Professor of Education Courtney B. Cazden said she circulated the petition in reaction to a letter sent last month at President Derek C. Bok's request to all Harvard alumni. That letter, signed by Joan T. Bok '51, president of the Board of Overseers, urged alumni not to vote for three candidates for Overseer who are running on a pro-divestment platform...
...over the letter), I continue to be prepared to share in the responsibility for any criticisms of the letter and its contents." I would ask President Bok, "continue" with respect to what? Until Friday, his position, stated publicly when he came outside to address the University community at the request of the Open University, was that Joan Bok's letter was written completely on her own initiative, without the prodding of anyone else...