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Television crime dramas typically provide viewers with a sampling of life's invaluable lessons. One is that kidnapping, generally, is a high-risk method of making a buck. That venerable cop-show counsel apparently went unheeded by a New Jersey couple, indicted last week on six counts of kidnapping and extortion in the case of missing Exxon International president Sidney Reso. Last April Reso, 57, vanished from the driveway of his posh Morris Township, N.J., home while on his way to work...
...before the Harvard Yard exploded with student protest. "There was intense questioning then," she recalls. "I had a law degree, but I hadn't really been encouraged to think. And Harvard was just facing up to the fact that there were inequalities of sex and race." Also, the Harvard method of teaching was different, emphasizing discussion and examining unresolved ambiguities...
...Australian electrical engineer, Parker began collecting old 78s at age 12 and soon started experimenting with various speakers, amplifiers and filters to improve on their sound. He perfected his method over three decades. When he went public with some of his stereo re-creations on Australian radio in 1982, the audience response was so enthusiastic that abc offered him a regular radio show and began producing his albums. Parker continued the series after moving to England in 1990 and has so far turned out some 60 albums, 26 of which have been rereleased in the U.S. through DRG Records...
Until Madonna is moved to lead a rally to the local garbage dump, Gans favors educational efforts like the First Vote campaign sponsored by People for the American Way. Its classroom instruction method, in which teachers devote a social studies period to the electoral process and register students right in the classroom, is based on a Dade County, Fla., program that registers around 12,000 high school students every year. Meanwhile Channel % One, the advertiser-supported television service that is provided to public and private schools, is planning a mock election in which its 7.1 million viewers, assisted...
Ross Perot enjoys comparisons with Harry Truman and Franklin Roosevelt. He sees himself as a can-do guy in a can't-do era -- as a feisty straight-talker like Truman, as a bold experimenter like F.D.R., whose plan for rescuing capitalism ("Take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it and try another; but above all try something") is echoed in Perot's call for "action, action, action." Perot may never be ranked with Truman and Roosevelt -- and of course he would have to win first -- but he already personifies an enduring strain in American life...