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Rather has never seemed completely comfortable in the anchor chair. A courtly and painstakingly polite man in person, he seems stiff and tense on camera. Even his attempts at spontaneity and good humor look programmed. One week he tried ending his broadcast with the sign-off "Courage"; widespread derision forced him to drop it after three nights. Walter Cronkite, Rather's predecessor, was calm and reassuring, an avuncular figure to the nation. Rather seems tightly coiled and uneasy, an eccentric cousin capable of almost anything...
...registration proctors also said they found their part of the process difficult. "The hardest part of proctoring is that the back of your neck gets really stiff," said Glannon. "I had to give someone a massage on the lower back so he could keep going, he was so stiff and sore...
When the Crimson checked out, it paid a stiff bill: Boston University 5, Harvard...
Gorbachev's admonition, delivered Jan. 8 to Soviet editors and published last week by TASS, was another clear sign that his reform drive is running into stiff opposition. His economic restructuring program, known as perestroika, entered a bold new phase on New Year's Day, when 60% of Soviet industry was put on a "self-financing" basis. The new system allows enterprises to decide what to produce and where to sell it, but it also requires them to earn a profit or go out of business. Those elements of capitalist-style risk taking are frighteningly foreign to managers accustomed...
...represents an entirely new species: for all the merit of many of his stands on issues, his candidacy can only be understood as a passionate protest against his self-inflicted political fate. In a sense, Hart is questing after a national pardon, but he is too proud and too stiff-necked...