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...surfaced. Three months after Speer took the Star Wars bait, the lab received a request for more information on the bogus project. Postmarked Pittsburgh, it was signed by a reputed arms dealer with ties to Saudi Arabia. How could he have got the address? The only way, lab officials insist, was to have been in cahoots -- or at least in contact -- with the Hannover hacker...
...then will come one of the most critical moments in the 1988 campaign. Jackson could insist that being the first black on a national ticket is a historic milestone, one that he and his supporters have earned; it would be a bold stroke against the nation's greatest sin, one that could actually sweep the Democrats to victory by arousing the passions of social justice. Or he could say no, that he has never had the least desire to be Vice President and he is smart enough to realize that such a ticket would probably lose and thus cripple both...
...Almost as if anticipating facile and unflattering comparisons with Jimmy Carter, the Dukakis camp goes out of its way to insist that the Governor has learned to set limited and attainable priorities. Paul Brountas, who has replaced former Campaign Manager John Sasso as the candidate's closest confidant, contends that Dukakis failed in his abortive first term because "there were far too many legislative initiatives." Brountas predicts that the domestic agenda of Dukakis' first year in the White House would consist of perhaps a "half dozen manageable programs." Seated one row behind a dozing and generally far vaguer Dukakis aboard...
Those results have not dampened the ethical debate over the practice. Says Dr. John Willke of the National Right to Life Committee: "Fetal reduction is the thinly veiled killing of unwanted babies." But both Wapner and Dr. Richard Berkowitz, head of the Mt. Sinai team, insist that the vast majority of patients come to them for medical reasons, not social ones...
...these administrators insist some athletes will choose to spend their undergraduate careers in the Ivy League because of what it has to offer both on and off the playing field, but mainly...