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Your magazine falsely reported that I promised President Reagan my vote in favor of the sale of AWACS planes if the vote in the Senate was close. To the contrary, I told President Reagan that I would not commit my vote one way or the other until I had heard the debate in the Senate chamber...
...point, in her blithe confidence that printing all the truth about absolutely everything can do no harm, Megan (who sometimes is made to appear a tad too naive to be believed) causes an unbalanced young woman whom Michael has tried to protect to commit suicide. In that tragedy's aftermath, he says to the reporter: "Couldn't you just see her? Couldn't you stop scribbling, put down your goddam ballpoint and see her?" It is a question all journalists should put to themselves frequently, and we are in this film's debt for raising...
...relationship between candidates and delegates. The commission is re-examining three main questions here: whether delegates should commit themselves to a candidate before the national convention: whether candidates should have the right of approval over their specific delegates; whether delegates' votes should be bound on the convention floor, with candidates granted the right to replace delegates who violate this rule. (The last question deals with the infamous "Rule 11H," the center of the rules battle between Kennedy and former President Carter in the 1980 Democratic Convention...
Twenty-five years ago, everyone knew Sir Edwin Landseer was as dead as a shot stag-dispatched, as it were, by the bullets of postimpressionism and "significant form." Even ten years ago, the idea that a major museum might commit itself to a resurrection of his work would have seemed, if not absurd, at least improbable. Realist revivals were one thing-but Landseer? Yet here he is, in an exhibit that opened last month at the Philadelphia Museum of Art and will go on to London's Tate Gallery in early 1982. And he has been restored with great...
...that there are cadets who accept a scholarship with no intention of entering the military. "We are trying to develop some guidelines for discerning whether a student is just doing this as his meal ticket," he says, adding, "If things continue like this we may have to make students commit themselves sooner." But Hetland says the drop-out rate today is no worse than it has ever been, and that the government is not losing money. "When a cadet gives up his scholarship, we simply give it to someone else as a two-or-three-year scholarship," he says...