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...Shame on Time for insufficiently acknowledging the contributions of Gerald Ford, perhaps one of the most important American Presidents of the 20th century - certainly one of the most decent. Ford may not have been flashy or tested well with TV audiences, but he was a President with courage, wisdom, honesty, integrity and compassion - in other words, a leader in whom we could place our trust. What other person could have done the hard but necessary work of leading the country out of, as President Ford himself put it, the long national nightmare of Watergate? Ford's extensive service...
...same fiery ambiguities marked Salvador, which opened early this year and has found welcoming bunks in the rep houses and on videocassette. There the path to wisdom led not from innocence but from noncommittal hipness. James Woods, the movies' definitive Sidney Sleaze, plays a renegade war correspondent, a self-proclaimed weasel with an itchy social conscience. In El Salvador (and, climactically, back in the States), he learns firsthand of atrocity and duplicity in the name of law. Because the protagonist is knowing instead of naive, Salvador never slips into the haranguing righteousness of Platoon. If Salvador nonetheless seems a smaller...
Perot's sudden resignation from the GM board and from the chairmanship of EDS created an instant uproar and raised new uncertainties about the future of the troubled company. Wall Streeters questioned the economic wisdom of GM's paying so much money to jettison an in-house critic. Pundits quipped that Smith had paid a hefty "ransom" to free himself from his adversary?a reference to last week's revelations of Perot's financial support for National Security Council efforts to ransom American hostages held in Lebanon. One of Perot's assistants dubbed the GM payoff "hush-mail." Shareholders, meanwhile...
...outside Seattle, Knight is the conduit for the distant voice of Ramtha, a 35,000-year-old "warrior." (That would make Ramtha a contemporary of Cro-Magnon man, giving new meaning to General MacArthur's statement that old soldiers never die.) According to Knight, Ramtha speaks, or "channels," his wisdom and prophecy through her. Ramtha first spoke to her in 1977, she says, when she was experimenting with crystal pyramids...
...dead and buried, or those from "different dimensions." Most of these channelers are clustered in the Pacific Northwest. The more established ones, like Knight and California-based Jack Pursel, who channels a rather likable spirit named Lazaris, have built up multi-million-dollar businesses to market themselves and their wisdom through weekend seminars and audio- and videocassettes. On a lesser scale, such channelers as Hossca Harrison ("Jonah") in Boulder, or Paul Tuttle ("Raj") in Bellingham, Wash., make a comfortable living through private and group consultations...