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Still, if the replacement parts don't slide easily into place, or if the solar panels refuse to unfurl after the work is done, the Hubble could be worse off than before the mission. Says Princeton astronomer Edwin Turner: "It's a tremendous gamble. If it succeeds, it will be a really impressive feat. Or they could leave us with a nonfunctional spacecraft." And a sharply diminished faith in NASA's ability to explore the last frontier...
...Edwin Outwater's score carries the show well. He blends kitsch-TV sounds (the Walt Disney theme, that "cachung" sound from "A Current Affair") with strong composing...
...many experts see it, the decline of Justice began with the appointment of Edwin Meese, Reagan's California crony and chief of staff, as Attorney General in 1985. After winning a bruising confirmation fight in which his ethical standards were questioned, Meese quickly steered all the resources of the department toward achieving the Reagan Administration's political program: to roll back civil rights gains, crack down on criminal defendants and the rights, they had been awarded by the courts, attack pornographers, curb abortion rights, and slow down enforcement of environmental laws. That agenda, with some refinements, remained in place through...
...hold the same antagonism toward Baker that they do toward other key Cabinet members of the Reagan/Bush era. Baker was much less of an ideologue than many of the others (his views on abortion, for example, are still not certain). Therefore, the spite directed toward, for example, Edwin Meese III and John H. Sununu never really hit the same level with Baker. In addition, the international developments for which the State Department takes credit (deservedly or undeservedly) during the Bush presidency are ones which merit praise on both sides of the political spectrum...
CONTRIBUTORS: Robert Ajemian, Kurt Andersen, Bonnie Angelo, Laurence I. Barrett, Jesse Birnbaum, Jay Cocks, Mary Cronin, Barbara Ehrenreich, John Elson, Otto Friedrich, Hays Gorey, Pico Iyer, Edward L. Jamieson (Consulting Editor), Leon Jaroff, Stefan Kanfer, Michael Kinsley, Charles Krauthammer, Dennis Overbye, Edwin M. Reingold, Richard Schickel, R.Z. Sheppard, John Skow, Martha Smilgis, Richard Stengel, George M. Taber, Andrew Tobias...