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They said independence would allow Puerto Rico to determine its economic future and choose its own trading partners. They also gave culturalreasons for their bent towards Puerto Ricanindependence...
...West has a grubbier, less celebratory, more multicultural look this time around. The moral verities are not so clear-cut. Indians -- now Native Americans -- are more likely to be tragic heroes than whooping villains. Women and blacks, long ignored, are major participants at last. These adjustments reflect the revisionist bent of much recent historical writing about the West -- the view that America's westward expansion was not the triumphal taming of the frontier but a morally dubious enterprise in which a race of people was conquered, the environment ravaged and democratic values frequently trampled...
...sexual-harassment charges under investigation by the committee carry no threat of criminal prosecution, - the same cannot be said for the allegations surrounding his possible misuse of office. Last week Packwood denied ever wrongfully soliciting work for his ex- wife, but the six members of the bipartisan committee seem bent on investigating and reaching their own conclusion...
This is not say that Campbell is an android bent on winning and nothing else. As he said, he leaves his testiness on the court...
West's intellectual interests--he has written widely on contemporary sociological and political issues--and activist bent will answer those student concerns, Afro-American studies professors...