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...director of the Office of Management and Budget. "I've been talking about 1991," he said with a rueful smile, "and I don't like a thing I've heard so far." For the moment Mikhail Gorbachev, the wily Slav, and General Manuel Noriega, the Latin scoundrel, hold the spotlight, but Bush knows that in the long run, the monstrous, suffocating federal budget may be his biggest threat...
Ever since January, when an FBI probe of shady trading practices rocked Chicago's commodities pits, members of New York City's markets have wondered when the spotlight would be turned on them. Last week the waiting was over. On Thursday morning U.S. postal inspectors and officials of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, the federal agency that regulates the pits, raided four of New York's five commodities exchanges. The Feds combed through records and served subpoenas on at least a dozen individuals in a search for evidence of suspected criminal and civil violations by an estimated 50 traders...
...hippies in the Agassiz's production of Hair were portrayed, democratically enough, by a racially and sexually mixed cast who get more or less equal time in the spotlight. Hair seems such a group effort that it would be unfair to single out any of the actors for praise. Except for a couple of fluffed notes, the singing was powerful, and Betty Ludaici's choreography provides some of the most electric dancing I've seen in four years of Harvard musicals...
...Brigham Young physicist named Steven Jones was nearing an announcement on cold fusion too that Pons and Fleischmann called their surprise press conference. They had been urged to go public by University of Utah administrators, who were apparently fearful that archrivals at Brigham Young would steal the fusion spotlight. The U has had chronic money troubles recently, and an influx of fusion-research grants, not to mention international glory, could go a long way toward remedying the situation...
...coma, experts ponder the causes of the latest source of urban fear: "wilding" sprees by alienated youths. -- On defense spending, the contras and gun control, George Bush is steering off the Reagan road. -- Inside and outside the U.S. Supreme Court, fierce arguments on a crucial abortion case. -- Spotlight on the working wives of Capitol Hill...