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While the CRR is not authorized to begin investigating any of the cases until a complaint against a specific person is lodged. Marquand said that it can begin investigations into the incident. The nature of the investigations remains unclear...

Author: By Kristin A. Goss and John Rosenthal, S | Title: Committee Revived to Try Anti-Apartheid Protesters | 5/10/1985 | See Source »

...screen lost and hence models every emotional permutation. For all his stage presence and manifest dramatic range, Sullivan does not let us sympathize with the prince. Were one to call for a division of the House which Sullivan asks, "To be or not to be?" the outcome would be unclear...

Author: By Clark J. Freshman, | Title: Just Not To Be | 4/26/1985 | See Source »

Even if the parody of the Long Island scene has been done before it remains humorous, perhaps benefitting from Eberstadt's youthful vantage point. This vantage point, however, is one of the novel's few flaws. Most of the story is told by Jezebel, but it is unclear how old she is. Sometimes she makes remarks only the dowdily middle-aged should try to get away with, while at other, moments she demonstrates the lack of perspective characteristic of an adolescent on a hormonal jag. Nonetheless, this flaw does not severely impede the novel, which becomes a wild string...

Author: By Deborah J. Franklin, | Title: Rising Tide | 4/23/1985 | See Source »

...unclear whether "the title that applies to all Shia leaders" is "ayatollah" or "imam," but both are incorrect. In fact, "imam" has extreme, messianic connotations among Shia Muslims, and it raised more than a few eyebrows a few years ago when Khomeini's followers began to call him by that nomenclature...

Author: By Charles T. Kurzman, | Title: Bad, Bad Imam | 4/18/1985 | See Source »

...long time. Not only does Ron have a limited attention span, but, they add, when he does focus what little attention he has, he comes up with crazy harebrained schemes. A prime example is his Star Wars proposal--the lunatic concept that we could protect ourselves from unclear missiles simply by zapping them out of the sky with laser beams and the like...

Author: By Per H. Jebsen, | Title: Eat Crow, Yuppies | 4/15/1985 | See Source »

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