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Students from a dozen other top law schools around the country--including BU, Cornell, Yale and the universities of Michigan, North Carolina, and Wisconsin--are also participating in the boycott...
...line is crossed when a university goes beyond expressing opinions and tries to exert economic pressure by divesting stock or engaging in a boycott in order to press its views on outside organizations...
Anxiety over AIDS in some parts of the U.S. is verging on hysteria. The boycott that kept home 12,000 of the 47,000 students in two Queens school districts on the first day of school last week was only the most dramatic display of the panic that has made virtual lepers out of many AIDS victims...
...raucous school boycott in New York City reflects the nationwide fear of the fatal disease. The medical facts are far less frightening than the myths. Reagan pre- empts Congress with compromises on South Africa and protectionism. Inside the three legs of the strategic Triad. Test of a satellite killer. Neo- Nazis go on trial in Seattle. Farm Aid: a benefit concert is planned...
...didn't exist," recalls Gary David Goldberg (Family Ties). "We didn't go there with an idea, because we knew it would be crucified." Silverman, who had earned a reputation as a programming wunderkind at CBS and then ABC earlier in the '70s, was also scalded by the boycott of the Moscow Olympics, which left him with $34 million worth of dead summer air. Moreover, there was turmoil at the top of NBC's parent corporation, RCA: three presidents and four chairmen within a decade. It was not until the fifth chairman, Thornton Bradshaw, hired Tinker...