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Carter, for all his problems, has the power of incumbency. As President, he can react to challenges by changing the direction of the whole Government, which he has done recently by attempting to balance the budget in the coming fiscal year, a course urged by all Republican candidates. Carter is an undeniably deft-and extremely lucky-politician. He also is a relatively known quantity in the White House, whereas the inexperienced Reagan would require a definite leap of faith by voters supporting him. Says Northwestern University Political Scientist Louis Masotti: "There's a variation on the old clich...
Last week, the day after students held him prisoner in his office for 13 hours for charging six foreign students with using false identity papers, President Merlin abruptly resigned. It was not the indignity, he explained. It was the fact that "a majority of the students had failed to react against ultraleftists who are destroying Vincennes." With his departure, the move to Saint-Denis seems inevitable...
...came back from China in 1972 was not the same one who went." Just as the successes of the screenplay must be attributed to him, so must the almost amateur direction, in which characters seem at a loss as to what they should do and how they should react to one another. An early scene comes to mind in which Simon and his girlfriend mutter indistinguishable bad jokes and move awkwardly in Simon's office. The picture also lingers at the outset: Brickman should introduce us to Simon and his life first, and then the scientists' mad concoctions...
...stance, he seems to believe, is at least half the battle. He thus remains relatively indifferent to strategy, to making sure that all the pieces are in place and all the proper personalities consulted, that all the predictable consequences of an action indeed have been predicted. He tends to react rather than anticipate, to race from one crisis to the next, always hoping for the best. He often fails to see how one event is related to another in a binding chain of circumstances that a President must always keep in mind. And when an action is heralded...
Acid precipitation is apparently caused largely by sulfur dioxide emissions from coal-burning power plants, smelters and factories. To a lesser extent, nitrogen oxides from car exhausts and industry contribute to the problem. Rising high into the sky and borne hundreds of miles by winds, these chemicals mix and react with water vapor to form sulfuric and nitric acids. The acids then fall to earth in the form of rain or snow that can damage anything from monuments to living organisms. After a number of such rain showers or highly acidic snow melts, a lake's pH* can plunge...