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President Clinton used his weekly radio address to fire the opening round in what will be Topic 1 in Washington this week: Social Security, and what to do with all that extra cash. On the table from the White House: a detailed version of his plan to use the $760 billion Social Security surplus to pay down the national debt, then use the money from reduced interest payments to restock the retirement fund. And to get Republians to play ball, Clinton's dropping his push to have the government invest 15 percent of the fund in the stock market. That...
...other business, the council heard a presentation on "Distance Learning" initiatives offered by the FAS Division of Continuing Education. The presentation was a status-review on what the Council expects will continue to be a hot topic in education...
...said researching the film was difficult because the topic has not been scrutinized as much as other subjects in American history. But he said that he found many of his sources in the Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America, the presentation's sponsor and part of the newly formed Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study...
...MATING GAME With so much game playing in relationships, it's not surprising to find a game on the topic too. So even if the advice makes you flinch ("Let your man do the pursuing in matters of the heart"), you'll still have fun with the clever CD-ROM game Men Are from Mars, Women Are from Venus ($30; Mattel), based on the best-selling book by John Gray...
Edmund Morris' new biography of Ronald Reagan uses a fictionalized narrator to tell a partly fictional story. Smelling a new genre, and--more importantly--a hot topic, Crimson Arts trailed Morris on a morning of guest appearances, interviewing him all the while. Here's the transcript. (See Review page...