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...anyone has had to deal with being pushed out of the spotlight, it's been Hartje. The first-line center between Steve Armstrong '88 and Andy Janfaza '88 last year, Hartje expected things to change with the return of MacDonald and Bourbeau...
...report cast a spotlight on the quiet but crucial duel between Greenspan and George Bush over U.S. economic policy. In its stand against inflation, the Fed has resolutely tightened credit since last March, when the prime rate stood at 8.5%. But Bush, even though he pledged during the fall campaign to drive inflation down to 2%, insisted two weeks ago that he is not "overly concerned" about the threat of rising prices and cautioned that he "would not like to see" the Fed push interest rates higher. In Tokyo last week, Bush asserted that the Fed might be overreacting...
Filling that void is the mission of South Africa Now, a privately funded half-hour TV-magazine show that strives to keep the spotlight on southern Africa. The weekly broadcast is produced by Globalvision, a small independent production company, with the Africa Fund, an antiapartheid organization. Launched last April, the show airs on about 45 broadcast and cable stations across the U.S. Says Globalvision's vice president, Rory O'Connor: "We saw a need for a program on South Africa and decided to jump in both feet first...
Interest rates jumped and the stock market tumbled after the Consumer Price Index recorded its largest monthly increase in two years. The ominous trend casts a spotlight on the quiet but crucial duel between the White House and the Federal Reserve Board over the direction of U.S. economic policy. -- TV commercials feature a lively new cast of characters: older people...
...road to Hell is paved with good intentions, and Defeat Homophobia's zeal was misplaced. The group's eagerness to advance its cause led it to spotlight the Sunday incident, and to turn what should have been an important consciousnessraising session into the most bitter and divisive event I have seen in my three years at Mather House. If their intent was to educate students about homophobia and intolerance and to help the Mather community to become more open and understanding, the members of Defeat Homophobia were negligent in rallying around the Sunday incident...