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...interview earlier this week, Dean of theFaculty A. Michael Spence-the Universityadministrator responsible for deciding whether toconvene the CRR-said that student perceptions ofthe body, which he called mistaken, made itdifficult to use effectively...
...landslide victory. Her press secretary, Teodoro Benigno, says a simple majority of 60% would be "comfortable." The President is making time-honored political moves to help ensure victory. Last week she approved a sweeping program aimed at reducing poverty, unemployment and social injustice through land reform. "Critics are grossly mistaken if they think that Cory is politically naive," says a top government official. "Enrile should know that...
...State of the Union message of 1967, when he arrived in the well of the House with a war going sour and a Congress that had just added 50 new Republicans. "I should like to say to the members of the opposition -- whose numbers, if I am not mistaken, seem to have increased somewhat -- that the genius of the American political system has always been best expressed through creative debate that offers choices and reasonable alternatives," said Johnson. "Throughout our history, great Republicans and Democrats have seemed to understand this. So let there be light and reason in our relations...
Despite his use of the art-crit lingo that is a hazard of the profession, the Andover-Princeton educated Stella does a fine job of explaining how Caravaggio's painting surpassed the tradition of trompe l'oeil--literally "fool the eye," meaning those paintings designed to be mistaken for real. Stella believes Caravaggio's greatest accomplishment was in his command of space, painting figures that not only look three-dimensional, but seem to expand out of the front and back of the canvas...
...Bandits appeared a year ago, this freewheeling use of the Chief Executive might have produced disbelief. Now stretches of the novel seem to run in tandem with daily headlines. This accident of timing may help the book's sales, but Leonard's imaginative license is liable to be mistaken for a matter of fact. That would be unfair because the author makes unlikely events spring from carefully prepared plausibilities, some of which, through no fault of his own, may actually occur...