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Surprisingly, it's junior Arne Duncan--an 867 free throw shooter a year ago--who's keeping Harvard's percentage down this year. The small forward's hitting at only a 673 clip...
...unwavering poise. Last month, at a dinner in honor of Venezuelan President Jaime Lusinchi (chicken breast Sandeman, poached salmon, radicchio salad and glazed pear), Nancy Reagan sat dutifully on the visitor's left--and when Lusinchi's bow tie slid askew, she smiled, reached over, and refastened the clip-on without skipping a beat...
...demonstration, some of the students began stoning cars; Israeli soldiers pushed the students back onto the campus. The Palestinians threw rocks at the Israelis, who responded with tear gas. An Israeli army spokesman said that the soldiers had to fire to "extricate themselves" from the crowd, but a television clip showed one soldier at the head of a squad approach a group of stone throwers and fire his gun, thereby setting off further clashes. One student was killed, and four were wounded. One Israeli soldier also was injured. In Ramallah the next day, Israeli troops broke...
Quick. Was that scene a Reagan re-election ad or a network news clip? Probably both. Reagan's managers have done such a seamless job of presenting their candidate this year that viewers often had trouble telling the paid political announcements from the evening news. Unlike Walter Mondale's campaign, Reagan's appearances were as meticulously staged as his commercials. Unlike Mondale, Reagan moved away from the traditional political spots-direct, issue oriented, slightly jarring-and embraced the sleek, atmospheric slow-dissolve appeals usually reserved for selling Coke and Almost Home cookies. The marketing of the President...
...industrial giant, is cruising at a 5% to 6% annual pace, while fast-rising South Korea, Singapore, Taiwan and Hong Kong are expanding at supercharged rates in the 7% to 10% range. Even China, which a decade ago was an economic backwater, is growing at a 9.5% clip...