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...second major error lies in the notion that PUCC is a band of ideologues bent on dividing the council and the student body. Chung asserts that PUCC's openly progressive bent "smacks of consensus destruction...and enrages legitimate conservative[s]." Of course, in order for "consensus destruction" to take place, a consensus must first exist; Mr. Chung has already admitted that no such consensus exists around the council. More importantly, PUCC seeks to create a legitimating consensus in campus politics--not by declaring a moral mandate for progressive concerns, but by creating an articulate dialogue around vital and potentially divisive...
...make matters dicier, a merger would also bring Malone, the chairman of Tele-Communications Inc. and a man with a bent for elaborate corporate schemes, into Time Warner's fractious family. Malone, who stands to convert the 21% of Turner stock he controls into about a 9% stake in Time Warner, strung out the talks with a long and changing list of demands that threatened to block an agreement. "He asks for everything," says a Time Warner executive. "You never know when he's finished." Levin and Malone hashed out their main differences at a Sept. 9 meeting...
...early '80s. He wrote: "My subjective feeling every day was, it's hard, and it's not working." So he didn't work. He traveled like a fox on the run, racking up exotic locales, exploring the world and the mind, the squirrelier the better. He went through every bent-spoon, aura-fluffing, New Age, past-life, talk-to-plants, Aquarian-karmic investigation one can imagine. "The thing is," he said, "I was having a really interesting time." The clouds lifted in 1985--no explanation--and he went back to work...
...PUCC's decidedly liberal bent may swing well with a majority of students, but it at once alienates and enrages legitimate conservative groups and individuals on campus. Pushing one partisan agenda or another is no way to secure representative legitimacy in the eyes of the campus as a whole...
Those interests have a decidedly liberal bent, PUCC leaders...