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Leading the resistance to the American invasion has been France and its Culture Minister, Jack Lang, a longtime Yankee basher who has proclaimed, "Our destiny is not to become the vassals of an immense empire of profit." Spurred by Lang, who has gone so far as to appoint a rock-'n'-roll minister to encourage French rockers, non-French programming is limited to 40% of available air time on the state-run radio stations. But even Alain Finkelkraut, the highbrow French essayist and critic who is no friend of pop culture, concedes, "As painful...
...would call upon the President to appoint a commission to develop policy guidelines for science in general and for biomedical research in particular. We haven't had a major policy statement in 50 years. Everything suggests not only that the time is right, but that the time demands such broad thinking...
...Harvard would be crazy to appoint this man president," says Jeffrey Hart, professor of English and a member of the board of directors of The Review. "He is personally unstable. He is a liar...The few faculty members I've spoken to think it's mind-boggling that Harvard is considering...
...important that students learn to understand and appreciate the diverse cultures of the world, important that students from all those cultures be sought out and encouraged, and important that all students experience faculty and administrators from those cultures in positions of authority. The president must take action--not merely appoint committees--to make sure these things occur with increasing frequency in the near future...
Adiele, who is Black, said she thought the decision to appoint her was indicative of a new sensibility on the part of Radcliffe. "Education for Action deals with multi-cultural issues, and as an alum of the program and a person of color, my appointment shows this change in attitude...