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...Little Rock. And after briefly trying to assign the task to the FBI, Attorney General Janet Reno has asked Starr to investigate how the White House got hold of secret bureau files on officials of the Bush and Reagan administrations. Reno's pass to him undercuts Administration attempts to portray the special prosecutor as an unindicted co-conspirator of the Dole campaign, just a courtroom branch of the Republican election-year strategy...
...your article "A Shot Across Earth's Bow" [SPACE, June 3], you noted that our planet narrowly escaped a devastating collision with a mountain-size asteroid, but you didn't portray the destruction in terms most people can comprehend. Two-thirds of the large asteroids heading toward Earth would strike oceans, not land. Had asteroid 1996JA1 collided with any of our oceans, a tidal wave of Noachian-flood proportions would have deluged every province of the planet. The survivors, should there have been any, wouldn't know what had happened. Perhaps they would refer to an act of God that...
...Harvard nears its June 6 commencement without a contract for HDS employees, union members plan to portray Harvard as a $7 billion institution which is unsympathetic to common laborers, Childs said...
Both Malkovich and Deneuve portray their characters adequately; Padovic is as sexy and patronizingly intellectual as Malkovich's character in "Dangerous Liaisons," and Deneuve plays both the discontented wife and the love manipulator with the same blank, dark face...
Perhaps in responding to the Hizballah rockets, Rabin would have acted exactly as Peres has. But at a time when Israel's counterstrikes are being criticized as an election ploy designed to portray Peres as tough, the Prime Minister must work overtime to rebut the idea that he is acting only for political gain--even if that perception is grossly unfair. War heroes like Rabin know (or learn) that a measured response is a luxury most easily enjoyed by the strong--or those seen as strong. Incapable of replicating Rabin's exceptional military credentials, Peres should realize that...