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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...large portion of the public has learned about the report has been filtered, often in a highly prejudicial way, through the critics-some of whom show no signs of having read it. The more industrious critics have minutely analyzed the full 26 volumes and exploited every real or imagined conflict among witnesses, every investigative error or omission by Dallas police, the FBI or the Warren Commission itself. Never attempting a balanced assessment, and sometimes defying the evidence, the conspiracy theorists have raised an array of questions, many of which are readily answerable. Some examples...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INVESTIGATIONS: WHO KILLED J.F.K.? JUST ONE ASSASSIN | 11/24/1975 | See Source »

...story is the story of a woman journalist imbued with parental ideals of the "perfect marriage" with a Prince Charming, of a woman who grows to realize that such false expectations breed only hurt and anger. Suffering the conflict between living her own life and playing the role her mother has outlined for her, Braudy feels simultaneously selfish and guilty, angry and deceptive. Explaining her discordant emotions, she writes "We are becoming more equal, and as an emerging equal, I displease him. Feeling his resentment, I'm angry, yet I worry that I am hogging the spotlight in an unwifely...

Author: By Nicole Seligman, | Title: Emerging From the Child-Wife | 11/22/1975 | See Source »

Efthemius Vidalis '76 yesterday suggested that anti-American feeling in Greece arising from American action in the Cyprus conflict would have made announcement of the grant last summer politically inexpedient for the Greek government...

Author: By Steven A. Gield, | Title: Greeks Own Up to Bearing Gift | 11/21/1975 | See Source »

Like most comedies, The Merchant of Venice is about the conflict between law and the powers above law. Throughout the first four acts we are shown, as we are shown in most tragedy, the conflict of two irreconcilable rights: Shylock's right to "justice" and Antonio's to humane treatment. Mercy and justice seem to be at odds. But the whole point of Shylock's Judaism is that only the old dispensation, the Mosaic law of "an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth," is incompatible with mercy. The coming of Christ means that mercy becomes...

Author: By Paul K. Rowe, | Title: What Ho! on the Rialto | 11/19/1975 | See Source »

Former coach McCarthy said last night that the change was necessary because of the conflict between his own personality and the type of program that the women wanted...

Author: By Richard S. Blatt, | Title: McCarthy Removed as Head Coach Of Radcliffe Basketball and Tennis | 11/18/1975 | See Source »

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