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University Marshall Richard M. Hunt could not be reached for comment yesterday. The University Marshall's Office selects the commencement speaker each year...
...make book on it: Hollywood is back in love with novels. After a decade or so when movie moguls thought that literacy was hazardous to their fiscal health, theaters are burgeoning with films based on books. Best-selling books: Misery, The Bonfire of the Vanities, Presumed Innocent, The Hunt for Red October. Cult faves: The Grifters, The Sheltering Sky, Mr. Bridge and Mrs. Bridge. Nonfiction too: Wise Guy (become GoodFellas) and Awakenings. Some sizzle at the box office; some fizzle. But when the year's first two runaway hits, The Silence of the Lambs and Sleeping with the Enemy...
...over the past three years. The highlight was an icy confrontation in May 1989 between Baltimore and John Dingell, the powerful chairman of the House Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations. At the time, the scientific community rallied behind Baltimore, one of its brightest stars, calling the hearings a "witch hunt" and Dingell a "new McCarthy." Dingell called in the Secret Service, which began going over lab notebooks with the forensic equivalent of an electron microscope...
Ford's White House antennas had picked up good signals in 1976 about the Commerce Department's No. 2 man, James Baker. Ford tapped him to hunt delegates at the 1976 Republican Convention, then elevated him to national prominence as his campaign manager. Despite the Republican loss that year, Baker continued to rise, serving first in Reagan's Cabinet and then as Secretary of State for his friend Bush...
Even Up-Scalers Hunt for Bargains...