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...growing use of leaks by Government sources. The term leak implies a breach of security and calls to mind the image of a disgruntled lower-level employee seeking to embarrass his boss. In fact, in almost every modern Administration, the majority of "leaks" have come from top-rank presidential aides, Cabinet members and other senior officials who want to get information or a point of view across to the public. Last week, for example, Reagan's top aides indicated their displeasure with Martin Feldstein, chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers, through a leak by "a senior White House...
...places for undergraduate education. Many commentators played up the slightly higher fraction (48.8 percent) who placed Stanford University in the top five. But that ignores the truly outrageous implication of the first figure. Applying subtraction, one finds that 52.4 percent of these college presidents evidently think Harvard doesn't rank in the top five undergraduate colleges...
...past few years. However, California, with more than 37,000 prisoners, pulled slightly ahead this year; it had only 21,260 on Jan. 1, 1980. Although Texas topped 38,000 earlier this year, the population had dropped below 37,000 by June 30. New York and Florida rank third and fourth, with about 30,000 and 28,000 inmates, respectively...
...carries memories of earlier performances (the bantam bombast of Dog Day Afternoon, the nervous belt tugging from American Buffalo, the crook'd arm from his Broadway Richard III), but creates his freshest character in years. There is a poetry to his psychosis that makes Tony a figure of rank awe, and the rhythm of that poetry is Pacino's. Most of the large cast is fine; Michelle Pfeiffer is better. The cool, druggy Wasp woman who does not fit into Tony's world, Pfeiffer's Elvira is funny and pathetic, a street angel ready...
There have been problems with computers at the Harvard department. Early in the program, backers admit, there was some opposition to computerization among the rank-and-file...