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REMEMBER PIA ZADORA in the film version of Harold Robbins' The Lonely Lady? A good beach book turned into a vehicle for this most untalented star to expose her "talent." Now Robbins does not pen great literature--many people would say that Robbins is not a writer, but a man in search of a movie deal--but whatever the book's merits, they were completely lost in its celluloid rendering...
Currently, the 41-year-old professor is beginning a long-term study of congressional conference committees--such as the recent tax committee--which are established to reconcile the House's version of a bill with the Senate's. "I'm primarily interested in this as a theorist--in a sequence of processes, having the ability to affect things late in the game is a great advantage...
Congressman Duncan Hunter, a California Republican and author of the military provision, argues that the Pentagon has exaggerated the dimensions of the interdiction effort. "If we can't intercept a couple of Cessnas per hour," says Hunter, "we better forget about SDI." A Senate version drafted late last week calls on the military to give support but leaves its role to the option of the Administration. Majority Leader Robert Dole predicted the Senate would act within a week or so, giving conferees from both chambers time to iron out differences on military deployments, spending levels and other issues...
These things are inconceivable here because the enemies of democracy believe that the people won't allow them to happen. But study what happened in the small version of your democracy and media that was my country on Sept. 21, 1972 (when Marcos declared martial law). The people did not protest the shutdown of the media, and there was nothing the media could do about it. But from the assassination of (my husband) Ninoy (in August 1983) onwards, the people demonstrated massively against any attempt by the government to shut down the alternative press and (the Roman Catholic station) Radio...
David Letterman, late-night comedian. Imagine Stupid Overseer Tricks or Deans You Want to See Dropped from a Five Story Tower. Paul Shaffer could shape up the band (and maybe write a hip version of 10,000 Men of Harvard), Marv Albert could hand out the Albert Tenure Achievement Awards and Chris Elliot could play the Dean-of-Students...