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...city and state financial officials who gathered last week at the Bayview Plaza Holiday Inn in Santa Monica, Calif., hardly looked like subversives. Nonetheless one participant, New York City Comptroller Harrison Goldin, declared the group's purpose to be "revolutionary." By the end of their two-day conclave, the 31-member Council of Institutional Investors, a group of pension-fund managers who control assets of nearly $200 billion, had endorsed a ringing "Shareholders Bill of Rights," intended as a challenge to every major U.S. corporate boardroom. Among other things, the group of hitherto largely passive investors drawn chiefly from...
...National Press Club, LaRouche leveled a litany of accusations at the likes of White House Chief of Staff Donald Regan (for "drug-money laundering" while head of Merrill Lynch), former Ford Foundation President McGeorge Bundy (for financing the Weatherman radicals in the late 1960s), and even one Agnes Harrison, 60, a former president of the Leesburg, Va., garden club (for belonging to a "highly organized nest" of Communist fellow travelers...
...Harrison's direction is fine when it captures the languid rhythm of everyday preoccupations and lets its attractive actors (especially Hallie Foote, the author's daughter) breathe quietly through the lace curtains of memory. The mood is so lulling that the intrusion of climactic plot devices involving an alcoholic friend and a cooty cousin seems not only extraneous but downright rude. There goes the neighborhood, and the movie. Instead of a valentine to his ghosts, Foote finally delivers a tardy, clumsy Easter present: Horton Hatches an Egg. By Richard Corliss...
...They don't have any impact on me," said sophomore Jim Harrison, who was passing through the crowd to go to lunch. "I think they're a minority and the majority, who support a strong defense, just don't hold rallies...
...OTHER DAY, spurred by a fear that I had heard something moving around inside, I cleaned out my desk. Among the many things I found were my application essays (which I read with a shame not unlike that of Harrison Williams watching himself on the Abscam tapes), a half-eaten crispito, and an official guide to life at Harvard...