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From the moment Challenger leaped heavenward on Oct. 5, NASA officials felt unusually optimistic. The turnaround time of five weeks since the last shuttle flight (the maiden voyage of Discovery) was the shortest yet and exactly the interval that NASA had set as its longterm goal. What is more, the...
The Democrats did it three weeks ago in San Francisco. The Republicans will do it in Dallas in two weeks. And during the interval, members of both parties in Congress are doing the same thing. Playing politics. With a vengeance. Even a Medici might marvel at the maneuvering on Capitol...
Waiting can seem an interval of nonbeing, the black space between events and the outcomes of desires. It makes time maddeningly elastic: it has a way of seeming to compact eternity into a few hours. Yet its brackets ultimately expand to the largest dimensions. One waits for California to drop...
As last week began, the mood was somewhat different. Hart aides were hoping that Tennessee would be "a second New Hampshire," rekindling his campaign just as his surprise victory in the Granite State had ignited it. The Mondale camp was slightly apprehensive that its champion might have lost momentum during...
Congress is likely to wait until the Salvadoran ballots are counted before deciding on the fate of $62 million worth of proposed U.S. military aid for El Salvador, and of $21 million intended for the contras. Indeed, some of the urgency of those decisions dissipated last month when the Administration...