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Next, Sharon flew to Egypt to confer with President Hosni Mubarak. The two discussed details of Israel's withdrawal from the last third of the occupied Sinai by April 25. More important, Sharon felt he secured from Mubarak an understanding that, in the event of Israeli action in Lebanon, Egypt would remain on the sidelines. Mubarak had said previously that in case of war, Egypt would not rush to the aid of Syria...
Many on the faculty give that argument low marks. The new plan, argues Professor Charles Fried, "attempts to confer the benefits of membership in a meritocratic organization while being dishonest about the attainment of merit." Other critics fret that come hiring time, Review membership will be a devalued credential. Perhaps. But many firms have their own affirmative action goals, and few will pass up a minority student from the Review simply because he may have had a B + average rather than...
Noted journalists and executives from the three major television networks will confer with political experts and scholars this weekend at the Kennedy School of Government to discuss television's role in presidential elections...
...already jockeying for position within various telecommunications and information-processing markets. Recently, for example, AT&T asked permission from the Federal Communications Commission to set up a long-awaited coast-to-coast network of video-screen teleconferencing centers. These will use computer and telecommunications technology to enable businessmen to confer with colleagues and clients in distant cities...
...world is as close to the brink of nuclear war as headlines say, Reagan and Brezhnev are meeting in the wrong place. There's only one spot where the masters of our fate should confer: Hiroshima. Its ghosts might give them pause...