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...Just as the Watergate break-in was but the initial event in a long search for the American conscience, the September slaughter in Beirut was but the catalyst for the turmoil the Jewish state is presently going through. For the past few months. Israelis had held their collective breath in anticipation of the official inquiry commission's report. The findings are in, the verdict a qualified guilty...
Time had run out as a Princeton freshman, Justine Koeppen, stood alone at the foul line. Two teams and 30 spectators looked on. She bounced the ball once...twice. She took a deep breath, shot...and missed. No sighs emerged from the Princeton bench. No cheers sounded from the Harvard bench or the Briggs bleachers...
...half-hour). The profits from syndication do, though: $800 million a year. Both sides are arming themselves for the FCC decision, and the sniper fire has already begun. Says Chester Midgen, executive director of the Association of Talent Agents: "Now that the networks feel the breath of competition on their backs, they want the FCC, Congress and everyone else to bail them...
First with the familiar cocked-head grin, then with the impatient venting of breath that shows he is really irritated, Ronald Reagan got back at the press. "I came in to point out to you accurately where the disarray lies," he said: not in the White House but in the press corps. It was not one of his better one-liners. Far from being in "disarray," the press was in considerable agreement about indecision and disarray in the Administration...
...come up to him and congratulate him for not collaborating with the regime. Former colleagues who have stayed in journalism try to excuse themselves by saying that they are working to change the system from within. "It is really rather pathetic," says Ewa, "because in the next breath they add that they have to do it to support their families." Nonetheless, Maciej and Ewa stress that neither of them feels morally superior because of the choice they have made...