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...really kind of interesting to look at," says Robert P. Stefanik, director of the Oak Ridge Observatory, 30 miles away from Cambridge. "What you sometimes can see is the changing brightness, since as it moves, the panels reflect light in different ways relative to the earth...
Molten's story intrigues investigators because it also seems to hint at a larger pattern. Records show that Knight lobbied Grumbly in Lockheed Martin's fight to hold on to its $40 million-a-year fee to manage an Oak Ridge, Tenn., research facility. Lockheed got an extra five years of work in two Energy Department awards that coincided with big D.N.C. donations--$15,000 given 13 days before a two-year extension in 1995, and $125,000 within weeks of the 1996 decision to add three years more to the contract. A Lockheed spokesman denied any link...
...unanimous. In private the Vice President can be an inordinately charming fellow: informal, enthusiastic, self-deprecating, with the kind of knowing wit that many baby boomers admire. But switch on a TV camera or get him in front of a crowd, and a mysterious alchemy transforms him into solid oak. This is the Al Gore the public has come to know--something akin to the robotic Abe Lincoln at Disneyland, only less lifelike...
...response to your deplorable corporate propaganda, which masquerades as an article about students' efforts to bring fast food to Harvard Square, I suggest that it would be far better for Harvard and the community with which it interacts if Ronald and his pals stayed in Oak Brook. --Joel B. Pollak...
HOSPITALIZED. VLADIMIR KONSTANTINOV, 30, popular defenseman for the Detroit Red Wings, which won the National Hockey League championship on June 7; with life-threatening head injuries after a car crash; in Royal Oak, Mich. Konstantinov, who came to Detroit in 1991 from the Soviet Central Red Army club, was a passenger in a limo driven by a man whose license had been revoked...