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...President now has 85 vacancies to fill on the federal bench and 25 nominations waiting in the Senate for confirmation. Perhaps the two most prominent choices are James Buckley, 62, currently president of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, for the District of Columbia Circuit Court of Appeals and Berkeley Law Professor John Noonan, 59, for the Ninth Circuit in the Far West. The Administration has set up an elaborate process to examine candidates. Each receives a ten-page questionnaire. A daylong interview follows at the Justice Department. Further hurdles include review by a special Administration committee that meets each Thursday...
Celebrities of this new breed have one thing in common: they all write effectively. "Networking is catnip for people who communicate best by the written word," says Art Kleiner, a Berkeley, Calif., writer who runs conferences on CompuServe and EIES. In the world of computer networks, he says, "Good writers have charisma, mediocre writers improve, pushy or insensitive writers get ignored...
...whole country that knew anything about nuclear energy--nuclear physics. It was just in '38 that Enrico Fermi got the Nobel Prize for his work with neutrons, so it was all really brand new. What happened was that the heads of the few places--Ernest Lawrence at Berkeley, Arthur Compton at Chicago, John Dunning at Columbia--they contacted all their former graduates and said, 'Come on back.' They were told that if they knew any semiliterate undergraduates, bring 'em too. It's for the war. So my professor at Denver brought me, first to Columbia, then to Chicago...
Outside the capital, the protest movement has been most visible on college campuses, where, in raising their fists against apartheid, demonstrators have also raised memories of the '60s. At the University of California, Berkeley, about 200 protesters staged a sleep-in vigil in April that culminated in 159 arrests. Harvard has seen a dozen demonstrations, including a silent ten-day vigil in front of the college's spiritual center, the statue of Founder John Harvard. At Cornell, students built a settlement of mock South African shanties and lived inside them until a fire swept through the area and the local...
...verbal, are pitched one notch above the naturalistic. Thus Babenco may subtly explore issues, both political and psychological, that are usually dulled by moviemakers' earnestness and self-importance. Full of sudden startlements and twists, the film is delighted by its own originality, its own shrewdly controlled outrageousness. If Busby Berkeley had ever made a movie about politics and illusion, it might have come out something like this infectious, sobering film. --By Richard Schickel DIM SUM: A LITTLE BIT OF HEART...