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President Neil L. Rudenstine Yesterday opened his doors to 17 student activists protesting the Law School's efforts to improve faculty diversity, holding an impromptu meeting to respond to their complaints...
Clinton's instincts these days err on the side of caution. The once accessible candidate now travels almost completely cordoned off from his press corps. Impromptu press conferences are discouraged because as Begala -- the traveling strategist and speechwriter -- puts it, "they just don't look very presidential...
...jail at Trnopolje showed thousands of prisoners who were dirty, dazed and emaciated. The camera team found evidence of beatings, torture, dysentery and scurvy. Red Cross or U.N. observation of the camps, now being demanded by the U.N. Security Council, would check some abuses. But there are also "impromptu killing grounds," says a Western diplomat, "where massacres take place, then the killers move on. This is not the kind of murder the U.N. or Red Cross can monitor...
...largest measuring 20 ft. by 30 ft., three dozen 27-in. television monitors and a satellite dish. During the concert, the screens will carry a random, computer-triggered mix of prerecorded material, live feeds from the satellite and shots of the onstage performance. Lead singer Bono will make impromptu phone calls that will be broadcast over the speaker system. (Hello? David Letterman?) The recipients could range from the White House to a local pizza parlor. And check out the show's lighting, some of which comes from the headlights on six German Trabant automobiles suspended by giant cranes at heights...
...shirts as a reminder of their suffering. As the patriotic pageantry built to a climax, a compact man with jug ears, weather-beaten face and glasses, the sort of fellow who looks like he might belong behind the counter in a small-town hardware store, bounded up to the impromptu stage, and the crowd roared, "Run, Ross...