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...Wall Street, Don Regan was called disruptive, cold, irreverent--and he led Merrill Lynch to the top. At the Treasury Department, he was said to be insensitive, arrogant, unsophisticated--and he helped launch the nation on one of the longest peacetime booms in history. As chief of staff of the White House, Regan has been accused of being unfeeling, narrow-minded, egotistical --and the President he serves now stands at an all-time high in prestige and acclaim. ''When you are on the inside, quite obviously you always think you are doing a better job, perhaps, than some...
...Jennifer Grey), who just hates the way he gets away with everything, and the dean of students (Jeffrey Jones), who distills all the pettiness of spirit and smallness of mind in a teen's view of adult authority. Jones provides John Hughes with the comic mainspring he needs to launch himself successfully in a new direction. In The Breakfast Club and Pretty in Pink, Hughes portrayed adolescent angst in a fairly realistic light. But from the moment Ferris turns to the camera to address the audience, we know that realism is out. Ferris and his adventures represent a teen...
...Morton Thiokol, the contractor that manufactures them, were less so. It took an FBI agent working for the commission to discover, while perusing papers at Thiokol, that a ''flight constraint'' had been declared on July 10, 1985, for the booster-joint seal--and then routinely waived for seven successive launches, including Challenger's last one. The report called this ''a strange sequence.'' The commission discovered that the booster-seal problem was not merely a low-level worry; top NASA officials were aware of it, even if they were never told of the recommendation by Thiokol engineers against launching Challenger...
...presenters AARP and Target--a national bipartisan summit in New York City that will bring together hundreds of leading Americans to plan and lay out a bold blueprint on citizen service. The event will start on the evening of Sept. 11--that solemn anniversary seemed an appropriate time to launch this effort--and the meeting itself will occur the next day, Sept. 12. The summit will also be the first major public event for ServiceNation, a national campaign of more than 100 organizations--ranging from AARP to the National Council of La Raza and Habitat for Humanity--that collectively represent...
...abut some of the most desirable housing stock in the capital. But such analysis would be uncomfortable for a party that has ruled the country for more than a decade. "Antisocial behavior . . . is first and foremost the responsibility of the parents," said Prime Minister Gordon Brown ahead of the launch of the Youth Crime Action Plan that was published on July 15. The plan envisages a tougher enforcement of laws and heavier punishments for young offenders, as well as intensive intervention in 110,000 at-risk households identified by agencies such as the police, social services and education authorities...