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Everyone laughed, but it was no joke. No more complaints were entertained. Discussion degenerated into a debate about whether a sign should be posted in the Science Center informing undergraduates of colloquia so that they could hear about current research. It was decided this was a bad idea since undergraduates might flood the colloquia and eat all the refreshments without even being able to follow the lecture...
...Harvard comes just two days after a Boston press conference held by his former lover, male prostitute Steven Gobie. Their two year affair and Gobie's assertions that Frank knew that he was running an escort service out of Frank's Washington apartment are the subjects of a current House Ethics Committee investigation...
...years ago, the U.S.-Soviet agenda broadened and deepened. During their four meetings in 1989, Baker and Eduard Shevardnadze spent so much time on the ideological and geopolitical issues at the core of the relationship that arms control was largely relegated to "working groups" manned by deputies. But the current leaders in Washington have come to realize that they are limited in what they can do to help Gorbachev succeed with perestroika. And the U.S. and the Soviet Union are nowhere near jointly managing the emergence of a new international order. George Bush is still groping for "the vision thing...
Baker might get more flexibility in a follow-up round of nuclear diplomacy, START II, after the current talks produce a treaty later this year. However, hawks in the Pentagon and elsewhere in the Government are questioning whether there should even be a START II. All this is reminiscent of the bureaucratic factionalism that so often made for an unedifying subplot of arms control in the past...
...only 0.5%, the slowest pace in three years. Warns Kazuaki Harada, chief economist of Japan's Sanwa Bank: "The real U.S. situation is worse than the growth-rate figures would indicate." Federal Reserve Board Chairman Alan Greenspan, whose finger is closest to the American economic pulse, thinks the current slump is probably only a "temporary hesitation" and believes the U.S. can avoid a recession. But as he told the Joint Economic Committee last week, "I wouldn't want to bet the ranch...