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...else who has seriously run for the White House since Dwight Eisenhower, Perot is defined almost entirely by his person rather than by specific issue positions. Asked his views in an April TV interview on the upcoming environmental conference in Rio de Janeiro, Perot gave an answer, both refreshingly candid and alarmingly ill-informed: "I don't know a thing in the world about it." In an appearance on Meet the Press, Perot appeared befuddled as he tried to defend his misguided assertion that $180 billion could be saved by eliminating waste, fraud and abuse in the government. Displaying...
...that white jurors are often inclined to give police the benefit of the doubt in cases involving brutality, particularly if the victim is black. "I've had cases where black clients have been beaten up by the police," says John Powell, national legal director of the A.C.L.U. "To be candid, I have soft-pedaled that ((in court)). If you have an all-white jury, most white people are not inclined to believe that the police beat blacks if unprovoked...
...move follows a decision by the Department of Education requiring Harvard to release the documents, which contain admissions officers' candid written comments about applicants...
...letter to the students, Lewis said it is the office's policy to destroy the sheets--which contain candid written comments by admissions officers about applicants--"after a certain period of time following an applicant's admission...
...fortnight after South Dakota, Kerrey went south to deliver what an aide called "a real hit" on Clinton, the favorite in the Georgia primary scheduled for this week. A Medal of Honor winner who lost part of a leg in Vietnam, Kerrey berated his rival for failing to be candid about how he avoided military service. That makes Clinton unelectable in November, Kerrey insisted. In an awkward affectation of Southern folksiness, the Nebraskan predicted Clinton would "get opened up like a boiled peanut" by the Republican President. But Clinton barked right back, accusing Kerrey of using "the disgraceful divide...