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Perhaps by now there is a consensus that Gary Hart brought himself down by his willful behavior. But at the outset of the scandal, a large part of the public was ready to blame the press for invading his privacy, and many still do. Questions about the role the press played continue to echo among journalists...
...From the outset, North was not exactly cautious in his dealings with the purported Saudi prince. When he was first approached through an intermediary in 1984, he made only a cursory check of public sources about the Saudi royal family. Even though he could find no Prince Ibrahim, North did not pursue the matter. Rather than deal with the prince directly, however, he steered him to Richard Miller, a public relations agent and associate of Fund Raiser Carl ("Spitz") Channell. Last week Channell pleaded guilty to conspiring with North and Miller to raise money for the contras through a fraudulent...
Cynics were quick to ask what the country has been doing since he first made that vow at the outset of the Cuban revolution. Indeed, many of the problems facing Cuba have a distinctly familiar ring. World prices are sorely depressed for its two leading hard-currency earners, oil from the Soviet Union, which it exports on the spot market, and sugar. Moreover, bad weather has damaged the sugar crop; in recent years Cuba has been forced to buy shipments from other countries to meet its sugar-export quotas to the Soviet bloc. The resultant drop in foreign earnings...
...states vying for the collider, the project means more than just a giant subterranean circle with a few buildings topside. After creating jobs at the outset for 4,500 construction workers, the SSC will attract a work force of 2,500 scientists, engineers and technicians, and provide a lure for federal and private research dollars. Says Syracuse University Particle Physicist Marvin Goldberg: "It's hard to think of a classier project...
Picture Stern at the outset of the bargain. He and his wife want a baby, and here is the clean, modern, technologically miraculous way to get one. What he does not take into account is that he is engaging someone to feel sensations on behalf of him and his wife that properly belong only to him and his wife. What seems so easy mechanically turns out to be an impossibility, yet the sanctioning by contract obfuscates the reality. Instead of a simple deal, he has swung a deal whose complications are infinite, and infinitely surprising; they are not in anyone...