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Ferraro wants desperately to get on with the campaign. Said she at her press conference: "I hope by Sunday, which is my [49th] birthday, we're going to start a new year." But the troubles of the past two weeks may not simply fade away. The House ethics committee could take up the question of her disclosure exemption on Sept. 12 at its final meeting of this congressional session. An inquiry is unlikely, however, since Ferraro is leaving Congress at the end of this term. There is also the Federal Election Commission, which has begun a review...
...have never been prouder," he said. "We are all still floating. That feeling will fade but the memory of the Games will always come alive again." Regarding a permanent site for the Olympics, some proponents of that old idea are smiling and saying that they may have a new alternative to Greece. International Olympic Committee President Juan Antonio Samaranch did not get into that, but he did observe that baseball is the Olympic sport he would be in favor of adding next. Ueberroth seemed to agree. -By Tom Callahan...
...exactly like going back to school for the first day." On the set of Passage he faced an additional hurdle, his daunting regard for the director: "The first two days in Bangalore I didn't want to talk to Lean. I was in such awe I wanted to fade into the background...
...years the reasons for having Olympics tend to fade, but the proof of value is fresh now in the faces of the athletes. Certainly nowhere else in sports, and maybe nowhere else at all, do the emotions show through the contests so clearly or compellingly, to the point of dominating first the action and then the results, finally becoming a theme more powerful than any one anthem or all of them combined. There must be a lot of great Communist Greco-Roman wrestlers around the Soviet Union and East Germany, but no one spoke of hollow victories in boycotted company...
Months of strain within the party-the bitter primary fights, the wrenching divisions between blacks and Jews, the philosophical struggles between old-style liberals and neoliberals-seemed to fade in that joyous, convention-ending tableau. Democrats being Democrats, however, at least some of those strains are likely to come back in sharp focus before November...