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PRETEND for a moment that you are a first-year law student. You've worked hard all semester, you've participated in class, you've done the reading. Then you sit down at the three-hour final exam, and you freeze up. C-on the exam means C-for the course...
...television interviewers. Anyone can find an awkward question to put to a candidate, but the candidate knows that a hasty, imprudent reply can haunt him for months. No wonder the questioner seems more assured. The viewer gets so used to candidates truckling to self-important television types that the three-hour Democratic debate in New Hampshire provided two refreshing exceptions. Interviewer Phil Donahue, a gregarious veteran of morning TV talk shows, was cautioned by Walter Mondale not to wag his finger at him, while the Rev. Jesse Jackson, who knows a thing about crowd playing too, advised the bullying Donahue...
...film The Day After [Dec. 5] is not a movie. It is a three-hour commercial for the nuclear-freeze movement and free propaganda for the Soviet Union...
...editing and sending stories to print with a minimum of paper handling. Taber has added an important refinement to the system. He helped work out a procedure that links his home computer to TIME'S mainframe unit, enabling him to make late weekend changes in stories without a three-hour round trip between his home in Princeton, N.J., and New York City. Says he: "This is what the communications revolution discussed in our cover story is all about...
...returns streamed in, neither candidate could quite believe what was happening. Raúl Alfonsin, refreshed by a barbecue lunch and a three-hour siesta, heard the results at the home of a wealthy supporter in a Buenos Aires suburb. "Let's wait, let's wait," he cautioned excited aides. At his party headquarters downtown, Italo Luder sat forlornly in his office, shaking his head in disbelief. Luder's supporters, expecting a night of partying, instead drifted quietly out of the building. Finally, at 5:45 a.m., the perplexed Luder emerged from his office, not to concede...