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...wire." Now, thanks in no small part to training they received from her, they write on computers and use telephone lines to transmit their stories with the press of a key. "Some people take to it like a duck to water," Davis says, "and others require a lot of hand-holding." One incentive for the correspondents to learn, of course, is that they know they can use the system to contact Davis quickly whenever they feel the need for aid, comfort and reassurance from New York...
This kindliness had consequences. A parade of would-be Veeps coming hat in hand would be demeaning, so Bush primarily communicated with the candidates through the relatively inexperienced Robert Kimmitt, who was in charge of the background checks. Kimmitt -- the top attorney at Treasury when Campaign Chairman James Baker was the Cabinet Secretary -- was under firm instructions to share most of his findings only with Bush. Thus, despite the broad-ranging search for a running mate, the most vital information of all was in the end filtered through a two-man channel...
Other experts believe short-term or roving deans diminish the job and shortchange the schools. "It makes the dean just an errand boy and caretaker," objects Erwin Griswold, 84, who ruled Harvard Law with an iron hand from 1946 to 1967. "For a dean to get a grasp of an institution and to know the players, it takes a few years," says the A.B.A.'s White. "I hope the trend will reverse itself...
...other hand, if you want to see what is really happening, get in touch with Michael Stewartt, the chief pilot, troublemaker, idea man and fund raiser of an extraordinary environmental flying service called Project Lighthawk. Just now a couple of local environmentalists, a journalist and Stewartt are aboard one of Lighthawk's two Cessna 210s. Stewartt, a lean, relaxed fellow of 38, with a bushy light brown mustache and hair to match, radios his plane's identification to the control tower at Seattle's Boeing Field...
...legal and ethical battle in the Minnesota courts. Five years ago, a drunk driver crashed into Sharon's car, killing her niece and leaving Sharon brain damaged and in a coma. She regained consciousness some weeks later, but could not speak and could move only her right hand. With the help of her roommate, Karen Thompson, an associate professor of physical education at St. Cloud State University, Sharon, then & 27, struggled to learn to sip from a glass, comb her hair, communicate with a typewriter. "We learned to play again, to laugh again," Thompson recalls...