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...pulser photograph is Seward's latest astronomical contribution. "He's really gotten the field off the ground. He's the recognized elder statesman," Murray says...
Seven K-School courses have implemented computer use in their curriculum this year and "teachers keep coming up to us and saying we are going to use the computers," said Katie Elder, a lab technician...
Whether Tlas is to be believed or not, Rifaat, 47, had made no secret of his ambition to succeed Hafez, 54, as President. That possibility seemed to loom larger last November, when the elder Assad suffered a serious heart attack. After Assad's recovery, Rifaat's elevation in February to the new, three-man vice presidency was seen as part of an attempt to hem in his power...
...call him, dabbles at landscape painting, but he seeks relaxation mainly in talking politics with cronies or with Inés, his wife of 35 years. Sometimes he seeks out one of his six grown children for political advice: Alejandro, 33, is mayor of San Salvador, a job the elder Duarte held for six years...
...maybe Nixon wasn't all that bad. The passage of time is one reason. People have softened their views considerably." Another reason is that Nixon has spent the past ten years tirelessly and skillfully campaigning for rehabilitation, for public acknowledgment of what he considers his deserved status as elder statesman. Says Dean: "Richard Nixon is running for ex-President." That he should campaign with some success hardly surprises veteran Nixon-watchers like John Sears, a former White House deputy counsel. Says Sears: "Right now he's in a period of recovering, but what's so unusual...