Word: complexity
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Before a crowd of vocal tenant activists, the board ruled that MIT committed the violations in eight housing units located on a 27-acre parcel of land designated to be the site of University Park, an office, industrial and housing complex that MIT is building in cooperation with a developer...
...Lying is one of the most complex things we do," David Leonard Saxe, a Boston University psychology professor, said yesterday. Saxe co-wrote a study for Congress on polygraphy and has testified in six Massachusetts cases in recent months...
That would not be bad, say some medical reporters, who feel the publication has overdosed on power. The Journal defends its embargo as necessary to ensure that complex medical information does not reach the public before it is read and digested by physicians. Says Editor Dr. Arnold S. Relman: "The embargo is important to help doctors take good care of patients." Diagnosis: a standoff between Reuters and the Journal. Prescription: take two aspirin and call each other in the morning...
...silenced or censored him. But often, when questions are raised about a professor's handling of racial issues, he screams "academic freedom!" or "free speech!" This case is no exception. But academic freedom is a complex issue. Academic freedom is not truly equal, nor is freedom of speech, when the majority's freedom of expression is greater than that of the minority. Whites control the American power structure, thus, they can listen to discussions on apartheid or race relations without feeling threatened. But in similar discussions, Blacks cannot divorce their personal lives from politics or racial theory, because racist sentiment...
This message is a frightening one, challenging the security and morality of a way of life for nearly 8 million inhabitants. Sherman McCoy is no Ivan Boesky, but rather a complex and almost enduring character. He sees nothing wrong with his code of conduct, expects nothing less than perfect acceptance of the world. And that world explodes in his face--perishing in the flames the culture that produced Masters of the Universe and Masters of the Ghetto...