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...could call him the John Sununu of Poland. He's a college dropout and part- time taxi driver who followed LECH WALESA out of the Gdansk shipyards to become his personal bodyguard and chauffeur. Today MIECZYSLAW WACHOWSKI is sitting pretty in Warsaw's Belvedere Palace running the President's private office. He apparently sees himself at the center of Walesa's inner circle of advisers, but his colleagues regard him as boorish, arrogant and power hungry. Like Woody Allen's Zelig, he has elbowed his way into so many official photo ops that local photographers delight in cropping...
...covering. Totenberg is no stranger to scoops or controversy. Until the Thomas hearings, she was probably best known for her 1987 disclosure that Supreme Court nominee Douglas Ginsburg smoked marijuana while a law professor at Harvard. The subsequent furor compelled Ginsburg to withdraw his candidacy. A Boston University dropout, Totenberg graduated from the women's page of the Boston Record-American to the now defunct National Observer. She was fired from the Observer after writing a story that contained quotes she lifted from the Washington Post. Since joining NPR in 1974, Totenberg has earned a reputation as Washington's best...
...press treating Hill with respect because she is a tenured law professor and not a high school dropout? Probably. Is that the only reason behind the media's new attitude? Probably not. The Times took to heart people's criticisms of its Kennedy coverage. So, too, will the Senate learn that issues like sexual harassment must be taken seriously...
...Doug Wilder of Virginia took beauty queen Patricia Kluge on state-paid helicopter junkets and then put the high school dropout on a University of Virginia board...
...Dropout rates have improved as well, from 9 per cent of the student population in 1980 to about 5 per cent last year, Giroux said...