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Besides providing the impetus and the set for the film, the Heartbreak Hotel also provided much of the cast...

Author: By Peter D. Pinch, | Title: Hedonism At the Heartbreak Hotel | 4/2/1992 | See Source »

Further supporting the "reporter as virus" thesis, and serving as the impetus for this correction of the record, the gist of your erroneous information was spread by the Gazette in their March 13 issue, without an attempt to confirm its accuracy. (Assuming the Gazette was otherwise correct, Harvard suffered no losses due to this most recent viral nuisance.) Joseph G. Sharp Manager, Facilities and Administrative services

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HIID Wasn't Hit by Michelangelo | 3/30/1992 | See Source »

That is the impetus behind Buchanan's two-pronged attack. On the home front, he slams Bush for breaking his no new taxes pledge and for signing last year's Civil Rights Act, which Buchanan calls an unjust quota bill. Buchanan rails against illegal immigrants, who he claims are draining taxpayer dollars. He wants to slash the size of the Federal Government, freeze government regulations for two years and roll back half of Congress's recent pay hike. He also wants to clamp term limits on "those check-kiting, boodling Congressmen on Capitol Hill." In one of his nastier pitches...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Challenger What Does Pat Want? | 3/16/1992 | See Source »

Tabak said the original impetus for a change ininter-house transfer policy came from Jewett twoyears ago when the house choice process forfirst-year students was revised. Jewett "thensuggested that was all do something to improve the[transfer] housing process as well", Tabak said...

Author: By Perry Q. Despeignes, CONTRIBUTING REPORTER | Title: House Transfers Facilitated | 1/30/1992 | See Source »

...enforced. The key question is, What constitutes educational fare? (A documentary on rock music? A "pro-social" cartoon like Captain Planet?) Squire Rushnell, the former head of children's programming at ABC and now a producer of kids' shows, is pessimistic. "Until there is an impetus from the White House that would create a snowball effect with the FCC and on down, nothing is going to really happen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ms. Kidvid Calls It Quits | 1/20/1992 | See Source »

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