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...Gold Coast" hotels on Mount Auburn Street were long ago converted into student dormitories. But at the State University of New York (SUNY) at Oswego, they're doing the opposite...
...nothing seems to go anywhere." The most pernicious effect of the influence-peddling game may simply be that it consumes so much of a Congressman's working day. Every time a Congressmen takes a PAC check, he is obliged at least to grant the contributor an audience. The IOUs mount up. "Time management is a serious problem," says Frank. "I find myself screening out people who just want to bill their clients for talking to a Congressman." The lobbyists are not unmindful of congressional impatience. Lobbyist Dan Dutko, for instance, has a "five- second rule"--all background documents must...
...with his regime. Until the Camp Aguinaldo press conference, Defense Minister Enrile had shown little sign of restiveness. There had been widespread speculation, however, that he would be leaving the Marcos Cabinet. But there was no warning that the Harvard law graduate and architect of martial law would help mount a revolt. What may have tipped the scales was Enrile's discovery that officers loyal to Marcos were about to arrest opposition leaders and members of the military-reform movement. The allegation was later denied by the Philippine President...
Speaking at the Mount Auburn Steak House in his native Watertown, Tolman, 26, told family members, supporters, and local Democrats who packed the restaurant that "many of my generation have been criticized for their narrow self-interest" and said he hoped to prove himself an exception as "a candidate of compassion, concern, dignity and integrity...
...Shcharansky was driven to the Old City and hoisted on the shoulders of a group of well-wishers. Suddenly the group was surrounded by a crowd of Orthodox men, bearded and wearing black suits, protesting against the Mormons, who are building a branch of Brigham Young University on the Mount of Olives. The demonstrators raised a banner ^ addressed to him: SPEAK UP FOR THE RELIGION THAT YOU SACRIFICED YOURSELF FOR. Shcharansky looked troubled as he proceeded to pray at the sacred Western Wall of the Old City. He did not appear eager to become embroiled in a religious or political...