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...network correspondents, but their patience was sorely tested at presummit requests to stage live remotes from the East Room, site of the Bush-Gorbachev signing ceremonies. Since the President has long complained about anchors doing "stand-ups" from the briefing room while he is still on the podium, the idea was nixed. "They wanted to cover it like a bowling tournament," protested one advance...
...build a big dream sequence around a few selected products. For $20,000, he will declare, "I have a dream that some day blacks and whites will sit together at McDonald's, sharing a Big Mac and fries." For $40,000, he will display a Big Mac on the podium, and for $60,000, he will consume it during the speech...
...despite the changes--and despite the continued tradition of activism at Harvard--President Derek C. Bok still remains unchallenged today from his podium on the stage of Tercentenary Theater...
...last week, "People accept rationing coupons and standing in line -- especially during work time -- but not price increases." And the housewife can now vote for a parliamentary representative able to stand up in the Congress of People's Deputies and, if necessary, shake a fist at Gorbachev on the podium. Preoccupied with the nationalities problem and facing a Communist Party Congress in July, he cannot afford another exposed flank...
...wasn't Wellesley's first choice this year; that honor went to Alice Walker, black author, single mother and Pulitzer prizewinner, who declined. To women in cap and gown who have worked hard to be able to make it on their own, having a wife and mother on the podium may feel too diminishing, like getting on Nightline and then having to wave to your...