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...marriage-license applicants, hospital patients and convicts and has unloaded on Republicans and Democrats alike who opposed the President's Iranian and contra policies. All that after Brother Bob told him about the fish. "He sees a complex federal agency as a bully pulpit," comments Joseph Duffey, chancellor of the University of Massachusetts at Amherst and Bennett's predecessor at NEH. "It is the temperament of a preacher." Hawkins has another, perhaps more canny, perspective: "Bennett gives the answers of a professional politician rather than a professional educator" -- a judgment some observers see as the sum of his many parts...
Director of the Harvard Foundation S. Allen Counter Jr. will meet with the chancellor of City University of New York (CUNY) and other officials later this week to discuss whether he will agree to assume the presidency of Medgar Evers College in Brooklyn, a CUNY source said yesterday...
...Gorbachev directing reporters at a press conference to change seats when they could not hear the translations. In the meantime, the networks filled out their nightly half-hours with interchangeable feature stories and ponderously superfluous analysis ("Well, I've been thinking about the cold war, Tom," began a John Chancellor commentary; snores followed...
American demand for foreign consumer goods remains strong, however steep their price tags. At a meeting in Paris last week of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, top European officials pointed to excessive consumption as the chief cause of the U.S. trade deficit. Nigel Lawson, Britain's Chancellor of the Exchequer, called for a "slowdown in the growth of U.S. domestic demand, which in these circumstances is rising uncomfortably fast...
...heart attack, Werner Nachmann was the most powerful figure in West Germany's close-knit, 30,000-member Jewish community. As chairman of the Central Council of Jews for 22 years, he played a key role in German-Jewish reconciliation. At a funeral ceremony, Chancellor Helmut Kohl eulogized Nachmann as a "moral authority" who had "made his mark on the history of our republic...