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Following Bob Dole's recent string of primary victories, a new TIME/CNN Poll shows President Clinton with a nine percentage point lead over Dole. The survey of 826 registered voters has Clinton leading Dole 49 percent to 40, a slight drop from a February poll showing Clinton with a 52 to 39 percent lead. These figures would change significantly if Ross Perot enters the fray, tipping the balance even further in Clinton's favor. In that race, Clinton gets 46 percent, Dole 33 percent, and Perot 14 percent. The good news for Dole? A Dole-Colin Powell ticket leads...
...student-faculty-administrator Committee on House Life (COHL) discussed in its monthly meeting yesterday how the College should respond to a recent string of highly visible crimes committed on, or near, campus...
...Tannhauser overture, a taste of lush orchestral beauty about as far as you can get from Stravinsky's astringent, polyrhythmic ballet. This piece showed the archromantic composer in full bloom, retelling the legend of Venus and Tannhauser in a series of exquisite themes and shimmering orchestral textures. The string section shone in the controlled chaos of Wagner's glistening chromaticism. Student conductor Brian Koh matched the music's passion blow for blow, his emphatic gestures turning almost violent by the end of the overture...
...latest of a long string of alleged burglaries and trespassings in Matthews Hall, Harvard Police arrested a man for breaking and entering into the building early Saturday morning...
...fact, Millstone is merely the latest in a long string of cases in which the NRC bungled its mandate and overlooked serious safety problems until whistle blowers came forward (see box). The NRC's relationship with the industry has been suspect since 1974, when the agency rose from the ashes of the old Atomic Energy Commission, whose mandate was to promote nuclear power. The industry vetoes commission nominees it deems too hostile (two of five NRC seats are vacant), and agency officials enjoy a revolving door to good jobs at nuclear companies such as Northeast. "The fox is guarding...