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In his account of the Challenger investigation, Nobel Laureate Richard P. Feynman described a curious battle that occurred as the presidential commission was compiling its final report. The commission agreed on nine recommendations to the president, but the chair, William P. Rogers, decided to add a tenth, praising NASA and...
In other developments, the party's Central Disciplinary Inspection Commission issued a strong warning against corruption by party members in state-run factories, and businesses. In a 10-minute report that opened the national television news, the commission ordered party officials to "raise the ideological quality of party members" and...
The disaster facing America's state legislators, and potentially its national legislators, is that they may have to address an issue of public policy on which many of their constituents have strong and irreconcilable opinions. This they hate to do and are skilled at avoiding, even though it is what...
Just when corporate raider Paul Bilzerian seems to have hit rock bottom, his fall from grace goes even farther. Last month Bilzerian, 39, was convicted by a Manhattan jury on nine counts of securities fraud, which carry a potential 45-year prison sentence and $2.25 million in fines. Then last...
The legal struggle, meanwhile, spread to hundreds of cities in which Time's cable-television subsidiary owns franchises. One of Time's anti-takeover strategies has been to say that the transfer of the local cable licenses required by a Paramount takeover would create crippling delays. Time won some support...