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Entitled "The Soviet Union Under Mikhail Gorbachev: On the Road to the Summit and The Seventieth Anniversary of the October Revolution," the all-day lecture series was held to promote contact between the academic and journalistic worlds and to inform journalists of the state of U.S. relations with the Soviet Union, participants said...
...have heard and seen you on the news," began the letter, which was stamped "please inform sender of the correct mailing address...
Ultimately, the urge to inform overrides the obligation to entertain. Perhaps punditry is not the best preparation for fiction. Safire the columnist is entitled to his belief that the stuff of life can be summed up in political thrusts and parries. Safire the novelist would have been better off if he had allowed himself, and his imagination, more freedom...
...this 351-year-old institution). Or maybe they just don't like undergraduates; sometimes it's hard to tell. Therefore, student input is ignored on decisions on investment policy, treatment of unions, handling student protests, future expansion, research policy, and so on. In fact, the Administration fails to constantly inform students what issues it takes up and what it decides...
Just who might be Powell's successor was not settled at week's end. Chief Justice William Rehnquist did not phone White House Chief of Staff Howard Baker to inform him of Powell's decision until 9:35 Friday morning, less than an hour before Rehnquist announced the news from the bench on the last day of the court's current term. Reagan and a few top aides immediately began discussing names. The two leading candidates were Robert Bork, a federal appeals-court judge in the District of Columbia, and Republican Senator Orrin Hatch of Utah. Reagan expressed a desire...