Word: algerism
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...card monte. Americans would be at one another's throat for a half-century, sorting out which of the lies was the evil one and which was the harmless. Consider Whittaker Chambers, the aggressive apostate from Lie No. 1: Was he a malignant fabricator? Or was the real deceiver Alger Hiss, who went to his death in 1996 still proclaiming No. 2? Or was it the father of McCarthyism--drunken, reckless Tailgunner Joe, No. 3's bully and birdseed artist, who was the true Antichrist...
...revelations of Chinese nuclear espionage that "continues to this very day." The Cox committee's star witness, former Energy Department intelligence chief Notra Trulock, on Sunday warned that this was the biggest thing since the Rosenbergs. And if the new "Who lost China?" campaign is to have its own Alger Hiss, the prime candidate appears to be Attorney General Janet Reno. Even liberal New Jersey Democratic senator Robert Torricelli Sunday joined the Republican chorus calling for Reno's resignation, on charges that she failed to authorize an FBI wiretap of Los Alamos scientist Wen Ho Lee, suspected of passing nuclear...
...Alger says Ohio's existing statutes protect the right of employees to participate in decisions affecting the terms and conditions of their employment...
Despite the apparent contentment at Harvardamong professors, Alger stresses the potential forfaculty to engage in collective action--aninformal way for professors to exert pressure inthe absence of an express right to collectivebargaining...
What concerns the AAUP, Alger says, is that"workload decisions, which affect the quality ofeducation, ought to be made by academicadministrators and faculty, not statelegislators...