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In a last-minute panic before the referendum, the French government sent copies of Maastricht to all 38 million voters -- a maneuver that may have hurt as much as helped. "The text was incomprehensible," said Guy Bechon, 56, principal of Cognac's Jean Monnet High School. A stocky fellow with...
You know Murphy Brown. Scrappy journalista for the TV newsmagazine F.Y.I. and, as of late last season, harried single mother. The woman who has it all but ain't got nobody. On the job she is feminism's point guard, schmoozing with the big boys. She gave Ed Meese the...
The success of American hurdler Edwin Moses shows how critical changes in technique can be. Before the 1976 Games, Moses, a physics major in college and a strong proponent of sports science, analyzed his stride and discovered that it was longer than most hurdlers'. That, he figured, could enable him...
"When is it going to be fun again?" Perot asked his advisers several times. The intensity of criticism was clearly getting to Perot. Instead of fun, every maneuver seemed to cause new pain. His policy advisers finally crafted a fiscal program incorporating his ideas about reducing the federal deficit. It...
In support of this electoral analysis, Clinton has continued his walk away from some long-standing Democratic verities. Many of his prescriptions have caused Jackson and Cuomo to grumble, but they saved their full-throated ire for Clinton's rebuke of Sister Souljah. Common decency dictates that those seeking high...