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...Data Systems sales conference. Forget the balloons and funny hats. Backers of Dick Lamm fear that even placards and signs might be banned. The party's national coordinator, Russell Verney, says the convention will play host to only about 1,500 valid Reform Party delegates and is not for hoopla but for decision making. "The enthusiastic part," he says, will be a week later in Valley Forge, Pennsylvania, where the winner of the party's nomination will be formally declared...
...event that bothers me. If it were the Democrats, the confusion would likely be the same or worse, since Democratic conventions are traditionally larger than Republican ones--a symbolic statement, no doubt, about the parties' respective beliefs about the proper size of government. Instead, what rankles is the neverending hoopla that has infected the marina, the harbor and the local news since the Republicans raised their mast at our convention center six weeks...
...hoopla in the last two weeks about the crash of TWA Flight 800 and the Centennial Olympics in Atlanta, New Yorkers for the most part have not noticed a significant battle that may substantially affect the future of New York City public schools...
...freedom we have to run our student organizations is invaluable. The Crimson is completely independent from the University. And despite months of hoopla, students at Phillips Brooks house Association have remarkable autonomy...
...Jack Kevorkian seems for now to have reached Celebrity Heaven, the very Eye of the Hoopla, which is to say he is never completely out of the news these days, what with going to court or coming from court or explaining what happened in court. "Thank God for the jury system," said his lawyer, Geoffrey Fieger, after the Doc's latest trial in Michigan, and well he might. Simply by punching a couple of jury-pleasing buttons, the team of Kevorkian and Fieger should be able to keep their show on the boards and out of jail forever, until...