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...began the unraveling of a two-month-old point-shaving conspiracy, a cocaine-distribution arrangement and an unrelated but long-standing recruiting-payments scheme. Last week, to confront "the questions of moral values and academic integrity," University President Eamon Kelly announced plans to abolish Tulane's basketball program, permanently...
Diplomats argue persuasively that a policy based on this view would leave the U.S. to confront Soviet expansionism all alone. No country would enter or maintain an alliance with a U.S. that specifically refused to fight in its defense. But in the real world, an outright Soviet attack against a country that the U.S. is committed by treaty to defend is quite unlikely. The decision whether or not to fight most probably would be posed by a Communist threat to a friendly nation that is not formally an ally. And then the threat might well be raised not by open...
...agenda, calling for a new round of negotiations under the auspices of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade. Several lawmakers voted in favor of last week's House and Senate measures with the hope that Reagan, even though he did not support them, will be able to confront Nakasone with the dire prospect of U.S. retaliation if Japan fails to become a fairer trading partner. "A shotgun behind the door" was the way House Majority Leader Jim Wright of Texas described the Senate bill. Even if Reagan does not pull the trigger, he will surely have Nakasone's undivided...
...date has not submitted himself and-the University to a public debate on what has become the predominant campus issue of the decade A public forum in which Bok, not an adviser, is forced to confront his opponents on the issue is clearly called for in light of the growing campus concern about divestiture, Furthermore, the leaders of the divestiture movement are owed a meeting with the president to air their grievances...
...likeliest of all solutions to this great mystery is that the Action Man is an everyday, anonymous Cambridge resident, incredibly lonely, but basically inconspicuous. It is this enigma of identity which makes the Action Man such a legend in his own time. In fact, to identify and confront the Action Man would constitute the destruction of a time-honored myth, like Bigfoot, or the Loch Ness monster. A captured Bigfoot is just another mammal; a captured Nessie is just another reptile; an exposed Action Man would be simply just another pervert...