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Instead of using its financial and legal clout to bully its neighbors, Harvard must work more constructively to alleviate tensions over poor real estate management, expansion into local neighborhoods, and the University's exemption from local taxation...
Laxalt has not ruled out a run for President himself in 1988, although he is not well known nationally. There has been talk of a Supreme Court or ambassadorial appointment, but many believe the Nevadan is looking for consulting or legal work and wants to take advantage of his clout with the Administration. "He needs a base to make money," said a Nevada political leader. "That base will be gone when his best friend goes...
...tone. The same is true of television. A 1984 survey estimated that regular viewers of religious TV shows number more than 13 million. When politics comes up on these broadcasts, as it increasingly does, the message is resolutely "pro-family" and conservative. The TV empires greatly increase the public clout of conservative preachers, who have become celebrities, generating huge cash flows through on-the-air fund raising. Doctrinaire Protestantism is bursting beyond church walls into the wider society. Not since the 1920s have political Fundamentalists been as well financed, visible, organized and effective. Deeply committed believers, working long and zealously...
Today some local observers are saying that the University acts like a small city-state. With all its political, financial and physical clout, critics claim, the self-contained University could declare its independence from this puny city...
...statesman was further burnished last week by Moscow's agreement to a summit conference between him and Soviet Leader Mikhail Gorbachev, to be held Nov. 19 and 20 in Geneva (see WORLD). But the President also faces the equally daunting though less heroic task of putting his clout to work internationally and domestically before the glow from the return of the hostages dissipates, as White House aides acknowledge it probably will...