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Sources close to the president said he is concerned that the panel may only have time for a knee-jerk reaction-blaming wasteful spending and price gouging for the current costs...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Threats to Affirmative Action and Federal Funding Force New Activism | 9/12/1997 | See Source »

Sources close to the president said he is concerned that the panel may only have time for a knee-jerk reaction--blaming wasteful spending and price gouging for the current costs...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Threats to Affirmative Action and Federal Funding Force New Activism | 9/10/1997 | See Source »

Sources close to the president said he is concerned that the panel may only have time for a knee-jerk reaction-blaming wasteful spending and price gouging for the current costs...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Threats to Affirmative Action and Federal Funding Force New Activism | 9/8/1997 | See Source »

...seize Maureen. Travolta, though, balances nicely on a seesaw of caring and exasperation; and Penn has every garish shade of Eddie in his palette. He gets the pain, charm and drive, the stumbling humor of a guy whose only religion is the woman who betrayed him. He turns a jerk into a heroic figure: St. Doofus...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: IF JOHN COULD SEE THEM NOW... | 8/25/1997 | See Source »

...useful. De Becker, a compulsive systemizer who has sold the Supreme Court his MOSAIC-2 computer program for risk assessment, offers 17 signs that a worker may become violent, and 30 predictors for murder within a marriage. He urges battered wives to flee but argues eloquently against the knee-jerk use of temporary restraining orders, which, he notes acerbically, "work best on the person least likely to be violent anyway" and enrage the rest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE LESSON: DON'T BE AFRAID, BE WARY | 7/28/1997 | See Source »

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