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...Mike Barnes, D-Md., the target of the most hard-hitting of Channell's commercials last spring, said Sunday he would formally request on Monday a congressional probe of allegations that money diverted from the sale of U.S. arms to Iran was funnelled into such conservative groups...
...average night, orders get larger the later people request the wings, Mello says, because people ordering food tend to get drunker and drunker. One late night, he recalls, "everyone calling us up was incoherent...
Conceived, at his request, as a starring vehicle for Spanish-born Supertenor Placido Domingo, Goya was given a handsome $1.1 million production by the Washington Opera before an opening-night audience in the Kennedy Center that included Queen Sophia of Spain and glitterati from two continents. It is being broadcast nationally this week on PBS. So far, so laudable...
Despite this degeneration some level-headedness remains. As a testimony to rationality the Undergraduate Council, the Southern Africa Solidarity Committee(SASC) and a host of other organizations and individual students sent letters to the Corporation urging a meeting between the seven-member body and students. Even though the request was refused, the negative publicity desired by the activists was generated using wholly legal means...
...recent survey of adult literacy centers in the Boston/Cambridge area, undertaken at the request of Derek Bok and John Shattuck, the directors reported a need for trained teachers, validated testing and diagnostic instruments, tested methods and materials, and long-term funding. The recent literacy campaigns have resulted in large waiting lists--in the hundreds at some centers--with no increases in funding...