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...years, believes that only at such times can one judge the mettle of a President. Harlow, who came to town a Democrat and turned Republican, served both Eisenhower and Nixon at the White House. Along the way, he concluded that successful leadership must harden into the quality of command if a President is going to prevail. That entails both taking political risks and abandoning the search for perfect solutions. "The White House is always filled with people with strong wills," explains Harlow. "They get along beautifully in success. But when they get into travail, these hard heads believe they...
...that they expect to sell to the general public. Scores of children sit in communion with batteries of special computers. The keyboards are arrayed with numbers, arrows and letters from A to Z in alphabetical order. In the Dial-A-Muppet game, Oscar the Grouch might pop up at command, grumbling encouragement. A science game called Spotlight utilizes a ray of light and two mirrors to illustrate how beams can bounce across space. The player manipulates the spotlight to illuminate a character named Steve waltzing back and forth across the stage...
...best organized and the most likely to bid for power in the event of the regime's collapse. Their leader, Massoud Rajavi, 34, is hardly known abroad-unlike Banisadr, whose escape to France was engineered by the Mujahedin. But with thousands of armed men at his command inside Iran, Rajavi poses the most serious single threat to Khomeini's Islamic Republic. The attack on the Prime Minister's office confirmed that the Mujahedin have penetrated the highest levels of the governing hierarchy, including its security apparatus. Indeed, late last week another bomb killed Iran's general...
...paper instead of two, that it will go after the story?" Bogart asks. Of course, local television does investigations, which can be effective when the evidence is largely visual. Too often, however, such stories are mere exchanges of charges and countercharges in interviews by news personalities with too little command of the subject. A newspaper is much better at giving enough facts and arguments to let readers make up their own minds...
...small gearbox that controls the platform's horizontal movements? Or was there a failure in the electronics or perhaps in the gears themselves? No one could say, even after hours of patient long-distance troubleshooting (it takes nearly an hour and a half to send a radio command to the far-off spacecraft). By the next day JPL controllers had found they could at least get the frozen platform to swing through a few degrees of arc, though not smoothly or precisely enough to aim the instruments properly. By moving it through ever larger arcs, they hoped that they...