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...George Washington and Thomas Jefferson appear to weep over the purportedly high-handed tactics of the Democratic majority. The commercials, aired in Washington and on the Cable News Net work, accuse the Democrats of "bottling up" a Senate-passed crime-control bill and "falsifying congressional records." (A House Democratic staffer resigned last year after he admitted altering the remarks of G.O.P. members in hearing transcripts.) The Democrats had drawn first blood last month, when O'Neill ordered House cameras to pan the empty chamber during Republicans' postsession speeches, which were staged primarily for media pickup. In retaliation, G.O.P...
Room 13, the oldest of the counseling groups which originated as a center to get help with drug problems in the early 1970s, is launching a program next year designed to foster discussion on race relations in the Houses, says staffer Herbert L. Watkins...
...contrast to Room 13, which handles a variety of personal problems, the Eating Problems Outreach Group (EPO) started to fill a specific need. The group, which deals with "food issues intertwined with other aspects of life," according to staffer Marsha Rorty '85, showed a film in December called "I Don't Have to Hide," a story about a bulimic woman. In April it brought the theater group "Food Fright" to Harvard for a "humorous but very moving account of eating disorders," says Rorty, and sponsored a five hour workshop on eating concerns...
...they want to show pique, this [boycotting the Olympics] isn't a very dangerous way to do it." Reaganauts accept the idea that Moscow is signaling to the world a refusal to deal with the President. "That probably won't change until after the election," says one White House staffer. "Then they will have to reassess...
Around IMF headquarters, De Larosière gets involved in the smallest details. He is, says a staffer, "the indisputable boss." He keeps a computer in his office to follow international money markets. Nonetheless, De Larosière can also be informal; he frequently makes his own telephone calls...