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Said Charles James, the Justice Department's lawyer: "Students and their families are entitled to the full benefits of price competition when they pick a college." But M.I.T. President Charles Vest warned that the decision would make it harder for colleges to admit students without regard to financial need and "effectively erode the freedom of opportunity to get a college education, regardless of income." The decision, which M.I.T. has vowed to appeal, could encourage lawsuits by students denied financial aid at any of the nine schools...
...Eagleburger, 62, somehow makes all this work to his advantage. "There is charisma in that funny penguin of a figure," says a veteran congressional aide. His devil-may-care attitude about how he treats his body extends to how he handles his public image, and at least in that regard the result has been astonishingly healthy...
Ever since the Clarence Thomas hearings last fall, the Republican Party has been struggling to overcome the perception that its regard for women is only a notch or two higher than that of the Navy's Tailhook Association. The hearings galvanized a long-struggling movement to put more women into the House and Senate, and Democrats have rushed to showcase a sizable ballot of women candidates. But the G.O.P. is woefully short on female office seekers, which is one reason why it is calling on Mrs. Bush and Mrs. Quayle to take high- profile convention roles for the first time...
...confessing and absolving itself in an orgy of publicity the way rock stars write tell-all autobiographies. But none of it is really taken seriously. Mel isn't an exploitative mogul, but instead a madcap guy who's a good friend to Brock. And Brock himself is tempted to regard this media catastrophe as half windfall, half big joke. What the hell, it's only a show. And the show must go on. In fact, it never ends...
...interview, Rudenstine said his record in that regard had been "not great. Not as good as I would have liked, though not for want of trying...