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Everyone seems to have a plan to assist the citizens of the former Soviet Union, and the CHURCH OF SCIENTOLOGY is no exception. For the past month, journalism students at the 237-year-old Moscow State University have been studying in the newly renovated L. Ron Hubbard Reading Room. Scientology propaganda in dozens of languages lines the walls, and video equipment is available. Pictures of Hubbard decorate the corridors, along with a bronze bust of "The Founder." Students, who have only the vaguest idea who Hubbard is, are impressed by the lavish appointments. But Western scholars in Moscow are outraged...
...chief of the Environmental Protection Agency was certain Dan Quayle had agreed that any piece of land that was flooded or saturated with water for 15 consecutive days a year would constitute a "wetland" and deserved protection from private development. The next day Reilly received a call from Allan Hubbard, who heads Quayle's Council on Competitiveness, telling him the deal was off. Within days the council hatched a new plan, narrowing the definition of "wetness" by six extra days, satisfying a powerful coalition of farmers and builders and reducing America's wetlands by as much as 30 million acres...
...Hubbard, a gregarious Indiana entrepreneur who ran Pierre du Pont's 1988 presidential bid, points out that those who object to the council's rulings are free to mount challenges in the courts. Hubbard says the council's goal is to improve the nation's competitiveness, not to shelter industry from regulation. "The higher the cost of the regulation, the higher the cost of the product to the consumer," he explains. "Our whole effort is to protect the consumer and the American worker...
...openers, that it is very, very long is like observing that the Grand Canyon is quite roomy. The next step is to point out that mind-boggling immensity seems to be one of the points of the exercise. Mailer's narrator, an aging CIA hand named Herrick ("Harry") Hubbard, who has written the two manuscripts that make up the bulk of Harlot's Ghost (Random House; 1,310 pages; $30), notes that he has been guided by Thomas Mann's assertion "Only the exhaustive is truly interesting." By that standard alone, Harry and Mailer have produced the most interesting book...
...FREDDIE HUBBARD: BOLIVIA (Musicmasters). Hubbard seasons his dazzling trumpet with some Latin American spice in one of the most listenable jazz albums of the year...