Word: center
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...short, what the amendment proposes is a loony parody of cultural democracy in which everyone becomes his or her own Cato the Censor. Clearly, Jesse Helms has no doubt that the NEA must be punished if it strays from what he fancies to be the center line of American ethical belief. The truth is, of course, that no such line exists -- not in a society as vast, various and eclectic as the real America. Helms' amendment might have played in Papua, where a Government spokesman defended the banning of Martin Scorsese's The Last Temptation of Christ on the grounds...
...movement may be getting a jolt from a hostile Supreme Court, whose ruling in the case of Webster v. Reproductive Health Services permits the states to place new restrictions on abortion. "Before Webster," says Susan Carroll, a political scientist with Rutgers University's Center for the American Woman in Politics, "there was a very real assumption, especially among college students, that the battle was over." That assumption is no longer valid...
...military intelligence Amnon Shachak. As Israeli jets flew overhead to drown out the noise, a darkened CH-53 helicopter landed after midnight on the outskirts of Jibchit. Lightly armed with silencer-equipped Uzis, pistols and a few small explosives, the commandos crept toward Obeid's house in the center of the village. One team guarded the neighborhood while another raided the house and abducted Obeid and two men who worked as bodyguards. Another man was killed by the Israelis when he stepped out of a neighboring house. Obeid's wife, bound and gagged, was left in the house with...
Because of high demand for this type of program, the Principals' Center this year established a separate program, the Institute for New and Aspiring Principals, to work with less experienced secondary school administrators. This program focuses less on problem-solving and more on building skills for the job, according to Tepfer...
...They still have the money coming in and we don't," said Al Brown, picket captain at a NYNEX special service center in Boston's Dorchester section. But the union vowed to stay on strike for as long as necessary...