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Former Kentucky Governor Martha Layne Collins, former U.S. Senator Dan Evans and Ann F. Lewis, the Democratic National Committee's political director, are among the six IOP fellows who will lead study groups and discussions at Harvard this semester...
...Washington heralded a changing of the guard at the White House last week, ^ so did TIME. Our inauguration, however, was a far more modest affair: we installed Michael Duffy and Dan Goodgame as our new White House correspondents, then sent them across town to front-row seats at the swearing- in of the country's 41st President. The White House beat is not always so glamorous. Or so easy. It requires unusual quantities of persistence, curiosity and humor, qualities that both correspondents demonstrated before they reached the Oval Office watch...
...soldiers, the moral dilemma only deepened as the determined government of Shamir ordered yet another military crackdown. "We will increase the punishment so there is a higher price to pay for throwing stones," explained army Chief of Staff Dan Shomron. A new kind of ammunition has been introduced: a round, rubber-clad metal ball advertised as nonlethal but responsible for nearly half a dozen deaths so far this month. Soldiers are permitted to fire supposedly less lethal plastic bullets more readily, including at the backs of fleeing protesters. Stone throwers can be jailed for five years, their parents fined...
...right, one conservative activist views him as a potential provider of "political intelligence" about what is going on in the Administration. Bush aides, however, see Quayle as an envoy to, rather than from, the right, "another set of eyes and ears" for the President. Says one: "If Dan Quayle can act as an address for the right wing of the party and make them feel included, that's all for the best. At the very least, maybe they won't be bothering the President as much as they might otherwise...
...opening his presidency with a call to altruism, Bush turns away from the selfishness of the Reagan era -- and begins looking for a way out of his budget bind. -- An interview with the 41st President. -- Reagan's last day: Who gets the nuclear credit card? -- Dan Quayle goes to school. -- Tensions between blacks and immigrants underlie Miami's latest uprising...