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...James T. Hart entered the hallowed halls of the nation's top law school in 1978. But when he finally receives his diploma, he will be saying goodbye, not just to Harvard Law School, but to the stage set of the famed series The Paper Chase...
Even within the Pentagon, some officials questioned whether the measures backed by the President amounted to anything more than rearranging squares on an organization chart. In a book published this month, America Can Win, Colorado's Democratic Senator Gary Hart, founder of the military reform movement in Congress, insists that mere organizational changes are not enough. Unless the military "culture" is transformed, he insists, the U.S. risks losing its next real war. According to Hart, the military promotion < system rewards "organization men," skillful Pentagon bureaucrats, while passing over "warriors" with a true understanding...
...Hart aims his harshest criticism at the Navy, which he claims is building history's "most expensive naval museum," one designed to fight the last World War rather than any future one. The U.S., for example, has been funding aircraft carriers as the most effective way to project power. Hart dismisses the flattop as the ship that won the Battle of Midway (1942) and points out that the Soviet Union has been launching the capital ship of the next war--the submarine. The U.S. has 100 attack subs, the Soviets three times as many. American submarines are quieter, an important...
...even television shows Republican or Democratic? Gerald Ford and Henry Kissinger both did their bits for Dynasty. Tip O'Neill appeared on Cheers three years ago, and now so has Gary Hart. When the producers of the popular Boston barroom series were casting a three-part season-closing episode involving politicians, they invited the Colorado Democrat to do an eight-line walk-on as himself. The cameo, which will air in May, calls for Hart to enter the bar just after Diane (Shelley Long) has finished chastising Sam (Ted Danson) for dropping politicians' names. The Senator, having...
...sending ships across Gaddafi's line of death than rescuing American medical students did with invading Grenada in 1983; as pretexts go, it was about on a par with citing arms shipments to rebels in El Salvador in order to aid the contras in Nicaragua. Scoffed Senator Gary Hart of Colorado: "There is always some fig leaf being used...