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President Reagan plans to end draft registration by allowing the authority for the program to expire in December. Newsweek magazine reported this week...
...Czechoslovakia in 1968--the U.S. ambassador had remained in Moscow, Some, including the unidentified State Department officials, saw Watson's recall as indication that he had "no special background in foreign affairs" and "no particular access to Soviet leadership." "Is Watson the Right Man?" asked an article in Newsweek in February. "As many people now see it, what the embassy now needs is a hard-nosed professional diplomat who can deal with a new kind of cold...
Students, faculty and administrators at the Ed School say the Newsweek articles underscored the problems the public has distinguishing between their perceptions of public schools and the reality of public schooling. "It's a perception that schools are in trouble," Ylvisaker says. "Twenty-five per cent or less have kids in school, and those who have an interest in schools are not politically powerful...
Deal critizes the Newsweek articles for blaming the ubiquitous "they" for the problems of public education. "'They' are greedy, lazy, stupid, misguided, but I can never find 'them' when I go into schools. I find committed, beleaguered, inspired people who do the best they can to educate kids," Deal says, adding with a laugh. "I'm one of 'them,' and I'm not like that...
...newspapers are distributed nationally. The Sunday editions (combined circ. 17.8 million) provide extensive national and international news, in-depth background reports and a wide range of reviews and entertainment stories. Also well entrenched are the Economist (U.K. circ. 69,000), TIME (British Isles and Ireland circ. 78,000) and Newsweek (circ. 40,000). Now! could not decide whether it was a feature or a newsmagazine. Its reporting never matched the newspapers', and its writing and analysis fell far short of the weeklies...