Word: briefings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...After a brief introduction, Cage jumped into a nearly two-hour presentation filled with such passages as: "we are criticized by how much Washington will pay to buy a man in the future" and "but really music not wings becoming every day close not that...
...refuses to comment on his job prospects in a Democratic administration, but the professor, who is on leave this semester, has been a top foreign policy adviser to Dukakis. Nye, who was an undersecretary of state under President Jimmy Carter, traveled to North Carolina to brief the governor on foreign policy issues before last week's presidential debate. Observers have mentioned Nye as a candidate for top posts including Secretary of State and Secretary of Defense...
...After a brief demonstration of the HOLLISsystem, Verba led approximately 100 invitedguests--several of them donning giant rhinestoneHOLLIS buttons--to a private reception for thosedirectly involved in the program...
This silly, TV-movie treatment extends to just about everything in the movie. The movie never deals intelligently with the guilt and political doubts of the Popes. Lumet trots out a bad guy revolutionary from their past to show that the Popes are nice guys, but aside from that brief scene, it doesn't really matter why they are underground except that it provides the movie with its premise...
...proposed exchange program does nothing to provide role models. A true mentor needs to spend more than one brief year at a school. What would become of the relationship established between teacher and student once the year was up? Furthermore, the program might only serve to highlight the difficulty of achieving tenure at a predominantly white institution if you are a minority...