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Such incidents have alarmed Iran's minorities, especially its 80,000-member Jewish community???one of the oldest in the Middle East?and 250,000 Christian Armenians. Although there have been no overt signs of antiSemitism, the Ayatullah's known antipathy to Zionism and Israel raises fears among Jewish families that there could be a repetition of the purges that took place in Egypt and Iraq after 1948. Khomeini has repeatedly assured Iran's minorities that their rights will be protected. Last month he sent a large floral wreath to the new "Hagh Horn," the leader of the Jewish community...
...Land. Informality permeates business dealings as well as private life. Says Stephen Keating, president of Honeywell: "The nature of this community???its size, its cohesiveness, its informality?means that you can accomplish things at lunch, in the street, or your friends come by on the way home." A young lawyer raised in New York City observes, "In New York, when you wanted a deposition from the other side in a lawsuit, you had to go through a heavy exchange of letters. Here I just pick up the phone and say, 'George, I need your client's deposition...
...worst environmental records, and approved $1 billion in bond issues for pollution controls. In December came the Senate's remarkable ?and unexpected?vote against funding that ecological nemesis, the SST. Last week a Harris poll showed that Americans now regard pollution as "the most serious" problem confronting their community???well ahead of crime, drugs and poor schools...
...antagonistic society are the heterosexual males, themselves caught up in a chimera of superiority deriving from a culturally unconscious past. Chauvinism, in all its sexual as well as racial aspects, is the real enemy of all men and women who seek the one security that is viable?community???and the one freedom that is transcendant?individuation...
...only one reason that the university's moral authority has been discredited in the eyes of the young. More significant is the profound transformation of the university from an academic cloister to'a mass industry producing society's key skills and specialists. Bigness has eroded the university as a community???just when campuses are flooded with students yearning for community. To many students and some professors, the university is now a giant corporation that manufactures human cogs for other corporations while performing "complicit" war research for the country's alleged militarists. "The college, after all," says L. D. Nachman...