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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...more recent years, the Music Department has begun to incorporate some performance into its curriculum. Levin's appointment as Harvard's first-ever professor of performance, the creation of performance classes Music 180 and 91r and performance opportunities in Literature and Arts B Core courses such as "First Nights" and "Chamber Music" are tentative steps towards this...
...Wigand, with his allegations that B&W manipulated nicotine levels in cigarettes, knowingly used a carcinogenic additive to make pipe tobacco taste better and covered up research into "safer" cigarettes, has begun talking to lawyers, grand juries and the media at an inopportune moment for tobacco. The Food and Drug Administration has proposed to regulate nicotine as a drug in cigarettes; teen smoking rates have taken an alarming jump; and five grand juries are looking into possible perjury and malfeasance by industry executives. At the same time, a novel legal strategy, which would hold the tobacco industry responsible to taxpayers...
...worked at B&W had been on a steady upward trajectory ("I wanted to be CEO of a company," he confesses), has foundered. His marriage hit the rocks owing, he says, to the stress of battling his former employer. Nevertheless, Wigand, 53, tells Time that now that he has begun to talk, he has no plans to stop. Though he has been tied up in suits filed by his former employers since he left the company in 1993, he is countersuing, claiming B&W invaded his privacy, made false statements about his personal life, destroyed evidence and abused the legal...
...tobacco champions twist their minds around possible defenses to the suits, they appear to be falling all over themselves in a vaudeville of contradictions. On the one hand, they argue, disease cannot be definitively linked to smoking; on the other, they have suddenly begun to point out that of course cigarettes are bad for us. "How can anybody, in good faith, take the position that the risks of the use of this product are not well known to everyone?" demands Donahue. "When you come to the bottom line, what does the consuming public know? They know everything." As Philip Morris...
...simplistic. It is his language in other parts of the field that is scurrilous. In waging the culture wars, he introduces a hateful ethnic dimension. Almost all the 20th century's horrors (the slaughter of the Armenians, Stalin's starvation of the Ukrainian kulaks, the Hitler Holocaust) have begun with a demonization of others. Buchanan has a genius for techniques that bundle his enemies together and subtly satanize them. His litany of Jewish villain names (ticking off "Goldman, Sachs...Greenspan" as if they were the Elders of Zion) is slyly anti-Semitic; he uses a tone of barroom xenophobia...