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...Miller and Nesson help create interesting and exciting television. Through keen and probing questions, they quickly advance arguments and perhaps unintentionally, often make some reporters appear nervous and uncertain. "I think it's healthy for reporters to get their feet in the fire." Hewitt says Nesson remembers that just moments before "Viewpoint'"s airtime, in "Nightline'"s usual timeslot, moderator Ted Koppel told the assembled reporters. "You're about to confront the snarling tiger...

Author: By Richard J. Appel, | Title: The Silver Screen | 9/28/1983 | See Source »

...Ottawa last week commented on the "juvenile" level of radio chatter by the Soviet pilots and their apparent confusion about what they should do. "The question arises," said Stephen Larrabee, a member of the Institute for East-West Security Studies, "whether the finger on the nuclear trigger is equally uncertain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Diplomacy: Salvaging the Remains | 9/26/1983 | See Source »

...students are uncertain about what measures the United States or Harvard can realistically take. Benatar says that the most important thing for South Africa Blacks is increased education, a natural area for Harvard to assist in. "The illiteracy problem has to be dealt with on a more personal level. For people to go down there and try to educate Blacks on an individual basis would have far greater positive effects than just turning the screws," she says, adding "rather than divest. Harvard should investigate ways in which it can further aid in the education of South African Blacks...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: South Africans at Harvard | 9/15/1983 | See Source »

...Vanzi, who was on the scene, was thus able to report 3½ hours ahead of his Associated Press rivals, who depended on government spokesmen, that Philippine Politician Benigno Aquino had been shot down moments after returning from exile. Yet when the declarative U.P.I, report and a hedged, uncertain A.P. bulletin came over the wire to the Washington Post shortly after 2 a.m. two weeks ago, editors decided to play it safe and put into their final edition a story saying only that Aquino had been arrested on arrival. Without their own reporter present, Post editors were just not ready...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: Sometimes First, AIways Second | 9/12/1983 | See Source »

...students are uncertain about what measures the United States or Harvard can realistically take. Benatar says that the most important thing for South African Blacks is increased education, a natural area for Harvard to assist in. "The illiteracy problem has to be dealt with on a more personal level. For people to go down there and try to educate Blacks on an individual basis would have far greater positive effects than just turning the screws," she says. adding "rather than divest. Harvard should investigate ways in which it can further aid in the education of South African Blacks...

Author: By Diane M. Cardwell, | Title: South Africans at Harvard | 9/12/1983 | See Source »

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