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Dates: during 1980-1989
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FROM Sunday evening to Monday afternoon, Jews all over the world observed Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement. It is the holiest day of the Jewish year, a day when Jews ask forgiveness for transgressions they have committed over the past year, a day marked by prayer and fasting...
This impotence was all too painfully evident during the notorious debates over the ROTC this spring, when the council was never so presumptuous as to discuss what it was going to do; rather, all the controversy was over what it was going to ask the Faculty of Arts and Sciences...
...Communist Party took no chances last week when it staged its first press conference since last June's Tiananmen massacre. The 300 accredited Chinese and foreign journalists underwent a tight security check at the entrance to the Great Hall of the People. Inside the meeting room, those selected to ask questions were planted within easy view of the men on the dais. As the six members of the Politburo Standing Committee filed in, wearing Western business suits and fixed smiles, one stood out as the first among equals. "Good morning," Jiang Zemin said in English, waving gamely to his audience...
Obscenity. This week the court will review a Dallas ordinance that imposes strict licensing and zoning requirements on sexually oriented businesses. Later this term an Ohio case will ask whether there is a First Amendment right to possess lewd photographs of children. In last term's dial-a-porn and flag- burning cases, the Justices maintained a tolerant free-speech stance; court watchers are waiting to see what change may occur...
...those employees and millions more whose companies are vulnerable to takeover, the influx of bosses from abroad raises some unsettling questions. Will the new managers ask their employees to live by a foreign corporate culture? How successfully will they cope with the American marketplace? In the long run, will the new bosses bring growth and prosperity -- or losses and layoffs...