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...known N.A.S. critic, Stanley Fish, chairman of the Duke University English department, has declared that the association is widely known to be "racist, sexist and homophobic" and argued that its members should be barred from committees dealing with tenure or curriculum. But N.A.S. president and co-founder Stephen H. Balch, 47, insists that the N.A.S. seeks only to maintain the standards of excellence that have made U.S. universities the world's envy...
...restrictions upon abortion without making it illegal. After examining O'Connor's opinions, the National Right to Life Committee last year drafted eight model laws for consideration by states, each designed for maximum appeal to her. "We are trying hard to avoid sending O'Connor tough cases," says Burke Balch, an attorney for the group. "We want the most moderate legislation possible that will still be effective in preventing abortion...
Such mix-and-match ideas are anathema to the likes of the University of Chicago's Allan Bloom, best-selling author of The Closing of the American Mind, who loudly deplores the blending of noble old wheat with trendy chaff. Stephen Balch, president of the National Association of Scholars, criticizes the broadening of core lists as a form of "intellectual affirmative action" rather than a fresh infusion of literary blood. Balch complains that revisionists "have designed a project to alter the nature of civilization itself...
...miles from Soviet waters and about 1,500 miles from Anchorage. Attu vaguely resembles a penal colony, but it is paradise to birders pining for a flyby of the Siberian rubythroat or other Asian rarities. "We have people who go without any hope of seeing new birds," says Larry Balch, the ABA's president and head of Attour, a service that brings about 65 birders to the island each spring for three weeks. "There's something magic and very relaxing about being at the end of the earth...
Among the nonreligious participants in the Boston deliberations was Attorney Burke Balch of the National Legal Center for the Medically Dependent and Disabled, based in Indianapolis. In an interview, Balch insisted that all human lives are equally valuable, however handicapped the individual. He is concerned that the feeding debate is part of America's "gradual but steady progression" since the 1970s toward "acceptance of the idea that lives judged to be of poor quality are better off not being lived." He also fears that the fine distinctions that Catholic theology tries to make between mercy killing and being allowed...