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...wider sense, the advocates are right. Helms' record of opposition to free expression is shameful. The direct-mail attacks, plus the restrictive anti-obscenity pledge, coming just as the NEA charter is up for renewal, have caused immense nervousness in the endowment. Its new director, John Frohnmayer, has wavered under right-wing pressure; one cannot imagine the formidable Nancy Hanks, who ran the NEA from 1969 to 1977, quailing before the likes of Helms and Rohrabacher. The chill makes the NEA much more circumspect about awards, especially to performance artists. And the NEA has limply allowed the opposition to frame...
Since 1977, Cambridge law has allowed for the appointment of a police commissioner. The post, however, has never been filled, and Walsh says he believes it conflicts with the city charter...
Dunne is also starting another organization with Laura F. Harris '92. The organization, called Networks, aims, its charter says, "to establish a support network of scholars, alumni, teachers, administatrators and community residents," who will shop or excercise with the disbled, or who will help the disabled put together resumes or take notes. Dunne emphasizes that Networks is not a volunteer organization, but one of "mutual support...
...still awaits discovery -- a consequence of lack of promotion, long-distance travel and substantial expense. The preponderance of Swiss largely reflects the promotion of Oman as a holiday mecca by Kuoni Travel, a Zurich-based agency that flies more than 100 tourists each winter week to Muscat via Balair charter...
Walsh's increased visibility on the council, however, may prove a temporary phenomenon. Since his charter-righting session, Walsh has kept a low profile during council meetings, speaking only on a few occasions and staying away from arguments with his political foes...