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...after the President underwent surgery for colon cancer in July 1985. According to Regan, the President questioned the credentials of Ghorbanifar, the contact with Iran. Says the Senate report: "Regan testified that McFarlane defended Ghorbanifar on the basis of Israeli assurances, and the President authorized McFarlane to explore the channel...
However, WNEV-TV, Channel 7, CBS' Boston affiliate has chosen to air only spots taped by Boston-area people...
...curriculum, which "spirals" students through subjects, with a light introduction in the early years and subsequent returns to concepts at increasingly sophisticated levels. But spiraling, as implemented in the U.S., observes Travers, "fails miserably. . .We keep on retreading and revisiting the same ideas." Finally, American schools often channel students and their assignments into separate "tracks," or ability levels, which may reinforce the performance of top students but imbues slower youngsters with the self-fulfilling notion that little is expected of them...
...movies in college, it was any movie buff's dream. It was cool too, like studying to be an astronaut. Martin Scorsese was my first teacher. He was like a mad scientist, with hair down to here. He was someone on an equal wave of nuttiness. And he helped channel the rage in me." Stone made a short film for Scorsese's class called Last Year in Viet Nam, about a vet wandering the New York streets; in another, Michael and Marie, Oliver's father played the victim. "Oliver was alienated, sarcastic and brooding," says his film-school friend Stanley...
...donations poured into the Rev. Oral Roberts' sleek Tulsa headquarters last week. Cash and pledges have arrived in a steady stream over the past fortnight, at a rate of more than $160,000 each day. That was the good news. But there was also the bad news: a television channel in Washington dumped two January episodes of his 30-minute telecast. Seven other outlets, including stations in Tulsa and Dallas, are now monitoring each of the United Methodist preacher's syndicated shows to see if they fit the stations' standards. The Tulsa Tribune, a somewhat sympathetic observer of Roberts over...