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Commission members insist that the report is "party blind," but the project is clearly a reaction to the heavy-handed news management practiced by the Reagan Administration. Reagan has held fewer press conferences than any other TV-era President -- an average of about six a year, compared with 22 1/2 for John F. Kennedy -- and informal access to him has been tightly restricted. "Shouting questions above the roar of helicopter engines just does not make it," says NBC News Washington bureau chief Robert McFarland...
...recent an arrival in the U.S. that she needs a Spanish interpreter in court, is convicted of trying to influence the result of a local election with a $20 bribe. In Matamoros, where posters from last summer's presidential campaign still crowd the walls, elections are invested with fewer moral, if not legal, expectations. Perhaps the single most striking statement to emerge during the campaign was the call by Carlos Salinas de Gortari, the candidate of the ruling Institutional Revolutionary Party and the eventual victor, for honest voting and an honest count. Not exactly the kind of statement that would...
With few students--there are about 14 graduate students in the center this year--and even fewer professors, Frye has had to expand his expertise to teach the myriad languages, art and anthropology courses that are required for the complete study of the Near East...
Students Buy Fewer Computers...
Harvard students bought 14 percent fewer computers through the University's fall distribution program this year, said officials at the Office of Information Technology...