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Have a conversation with Sawyer, and you cannot help coming away impressed. Intelligent, articulate, polished -- and a bit calculated. (She calls a reporter at home to amend her earlier list of favorite reading: add Doctorow's Billy Bathgate and Mann's Tonio Kroger to a shelf that already features Flaubert, Henry James and John Fowles.) In earnest, carefully molded sentences, she strives to dispel the notion that she is strictly a TV creation. "I really love what you learn every day in the business," she says. "I love the breathtaking way we walk into people's lives and ask them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Video: Star Power: Diane Sawyer | 8/7/1989 | See Source »

...petition, filed with the city on April 6, the organization writes that "variances to the zoning ordinance have become too commonplace and too easy to obtain" and asks the City Council to amend the ordinance to limit the power of the Zoning Board...

Author: By Kirsten L. Parkinson, | Title: Group Seeks End to Variances in Residential Areas | 4/18/1989 | See Source »

Because increased development poses a threat to Cambridge's water supply, State Sen. Michael J. Barrett '70 (D-Cambridge) said yesterday he is seeking to amend a Massachusetts water protection bill to include two city reservoirs...

Author: By Matthew M. Hoffman, | Title: Barrett Seeks Water Protection | 2/15/1989 | See Source »

...council also endorsed a proposal from State Sen. Michael J. Barrett '70 to amend a state water protection act to include Cambridge reservoirs...

Author: By Matthew M. Hoffman, | Title: Council Extends City Manager's Tenure | 2/14/1989 | See Source »

...such as Boston University's Fred Licht, is both a summary of existing Goya scholarship and a breaking of much new ground. Its theme is explicit: to show Goya's role in the Spanish Enlightenment, to present him as a man immersed in the values of liberal thought, to amend his reputation as a solitary fantasist who did sardonic court portraits on the side...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Goya, A Despairing Assault on Terminal Evil | 1/30/1989 | See Source »

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