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...government trusteeship, Teamsters leaders agreed to major reforms. If the Orlando convention follows the new rules, in December the 1.6 million members of the most powerful U.S. union will freely elect their president and 17-member executive board for the first time. That's good news for the rank and file, whose pooh-bahs have been ripping them off for decades. The bad news is that none of the viable presidential candidates are completely free of old Teamster associations or questionable past performances...
John Smith, a white, scores 327 on a vocational-aptitude test. Fred Jones, a black, gets only 283. But if the two applicants are sent to a prospective employer, their test results are said to rank identically at the 70th percentile. A computer error? No. The raw score Jones earned was compared only with the marks obtained by fellow blacks. Smith's number went into a blend of scores made by whites and "others." If a Hispanic takes the same test, his raw score is converted on a third curve reserved for Hispanics only...
...early and vocal supporter of Ronald Reagan, Campbell has attempted to position himself as a nondoctrinaire conservative. Though he sides with the right against abortion and for school prayer, he has linked himself to issues like education and the environment. In a state whose per pupil expenditures rank near the bottom nationally, Campbell has helped increase state funding for schools. He has also provided money for public health programs to combat infant mortality...
...year later, the church, to which 97% of Poland's 38 million people belong, is omnipresent and, in the view of some, virtually omnipotent. Bishops and priests bless the armed forces, schools and factories. The newly created post of superior chaplain to the army has been given the rank of general. To mark the 200th anniversary of the country's first liberal constitution earlier this month, President Lech Walesa, a devout Catholic, skipped ceremonies at parliament and instead visited the national shrine of the Black Madonna at Jasna Gora...
...chain of clubhouses that offer expensive counseling and career guidance. Adherents include screen idols Tom Cruise and John Travolta, actresses Kirstie Alley, Mimi Rogers and Anne Archer, Palm Springs mayor and performer Sonny Bono, jazzman Chick Corea and even Nancy Cartwright, the voice of cartoon star Bart Simpson. Rank-and-file members, however, are dealt a less glamorous Scientology...