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...current atmosphere, negativism appears to have become ingrained. The attack mode, as Hart observes, "is the easy shortcut" for campaign strategists, particularly when their own candidate lacks heft. One large hazard, however, is that the trashing can boomerang. TIME's survey showed that the potential for movement remains large. When those surveyed were asked if they might change their minds before Election Day, one-fifth of those supporting each ticket said yes. Among those wavering, two groups are particularly important: those who describe themselves as independents, and Democrats who voted for Reagan in 1984. Dukakis has more trouble than Bush...
...even went to trial. After all, the Los Angeles court system is clogged with 150,000 new civil cases a year. But, instead, the mutual breach-of-contract suits -- a fallout from Harper's departure last summer from the NBC series Valerie -- went to trial together last week. The shortcut? With the blessings of the state court, both sides got together and hired a private judge. "I'm very happy to have my day in court so quickly," says Harper...
...during the races. In London, Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher called the attack a "terrible atrocity" but rejected calls in Parliament for the internment without trial of suspected terrorists in Ulster. In the war against I.R.A. terrorism, said Tom King, the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, "there is no shortcut...
Students accustomed to using the small alley between Kirkland and Eliot Houses as a shortcut to John F. Kennedy Street are going to be getting some unwanted exercize starting this week...
...India absorbing Hinduism and the teachings of Buddha), plus an occasional dab of pantheism and sorcery. The underlying faith is a lack of faith in the orthodoxies of rationalism, high technology, routine living, spiritual law-and-order. Somehow, the New Agers believe, there must be some secret and mysterious shortcut or alternative path to happiness and health. And nobody ever really dies...