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N.A.S. members are manning the intellectual barricades almost everywhere these days. At the University of Texas at Austin, chapter adherents successfully challenged a proposal to focus English 306, a required freshman writing course, on problems of race and gender. They argued that the change would turn the class into a political-indoctrination course. At the University of Wisconsin in Madison, the N.A.S. chapter has criticized a plan to hire more minority professors, contending that it would set up the academic equivalent of a patronage system. Christina Hoff Sommers, an associate professor of philosophy at Clark University, refused to sign...
...thriving Texas broadcast and real estate properties that in 1985 was valued at more than $100 million. But now the LBJ Co., owned almost entirely by the Johnson family, is being dismantled for far less, a victim of the state's economic bust. KLBJ AM-FM, the highly profitable Austin radio . station once valued at $27 million, is on the block for $13.5 million. Thirty cable-TV systems may bring $50 million...
Some restaurants have undergone full-blown conversions. The 10-year-old Courtyard in Austin closed last year, and when chef-owner Gert Rauch reopened it as the Courtyard Grill, he had done away with grilled pheasant breast with shitake mushrooms in favor of more casual food, such as grilled marinated duck with warm cabbage salad. In Cambridge, Mass., Michela Larson added a glass- enclosed cafe atrium to her restaurant, Michela's, which serves a restrained version of her Northern Italian dishes. Cod, braised and served with a sauce of leeks, sherry and smoked bacon, replaced grilled swordfish. In the main...
...this for the country's real estate promoters: even in the worst of times they are unsinkably optimistic. Yodels Jerry Lumsden, a property broker in Austin whose 27% office vacancy rate is among the highest in Texas: "The trend line is good." The Lone Star State, like the rest of America, is reeling from what many experts consider the most glutted commercial real estate market since the 1930s. The culprit: the 1980s, of course, during which U.S. office space doubled, to 5.38 billion sq. ft. In city after city the industry is overleveraged, overbuilt and underleased. At 540 million...
...basic feeling is that we're losing a person who can be replaced but never duplicated," says Cecil Austin...