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...incident has created what Harbus, the B-School's student newspaper this week called a "furor around exam credibility." Vytas Kisielius, the second-year chairman of the student Education Committee, said after the invalidation that "it's extremely disappointing and disorienting for students to find that all this structure that's being imposed on them has glitches in them...
That would seem to overstate the case. But enough damage has been done, insist some White House insiders, that the whiz kid will have to wave some new magic wands and make the furor fade away if he is to keep his job. Warned one official: "He's got about a week or maybe two before another decision will have to be made." Predicted another top aide: "He's going to bleed to death." Already there was talk in the White House about finding a replacement for Stockman. That, however, will not be easy. Shaky as those elusive...
...President's Office of Management and Budget, was on the cover. Had the President, asked Stahl, seen Stockman's critique of his economic program in the magazine? The President, taken aback, replied that he would ask Stockman what he had said. He did. And the furor that followed (yeeNATION)provided a closeup look at the symbiotic relationship between those unnamed government officials quoted every day on the front pages of newspapers and the reporters who cover them...
...traditional friends of landlords may actually be wishing that the conversion permits are denied: that action could create a cause celebre, and perhaps generate enough furor to keep the condo issue alive and perhaps overturn the entire ordinance...
...furor over the condo issue tended to overshadow a few other interesting trends in last week's voting, trends that could be ascertained by watching the ballots pile up one after another in the pigeonholes reserved for each candidate. The most interesting developments included...