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Unfortunately, it will have to contend with Boston University, which has created what Captain Amy Constable termed "a mini-dynasty...
...understand that organized responses to racism are often appropriate, that people have the right to speak or respond to speech however they like and that political evil is not always resolvable by open-minded dialogue. I applaud the university for supporting diverse student and administrative organizations to help people contend with difficult and hurtful situations; I think it could do more still...
Other students of Chrysler contend that Iacocca will inevitably find fault with Eaton's management before next December and will raise the succession issue again by relaying his doubts to the board. Iacocca could then suggest delaying his own departure until the problems are solved. "Lee hasn't changed," says a longtime associate. "He's as predictable as the sun that follows the night. His game plan is to be the folk hero by turning Chrysler around for the second time. The first mistake Eaton makes, Lee will be right back in there." Advises another insider: "The first time...
...Organization for Women. "It takes the onus off the criminal and blames the publishers and artists." Nancy Ryan of the Cambridge women's commission, which opposed a similar measure introduced in that Boston suburb, argues that "the men who did these acts would have done them without pornography." Others contend that the evidence linking pornography to systematic violence is more anecdotal than statistically solid...
MacKinnon, Dworkin and the A.C.L.U. all have qualms about the Senate's so- called Bundy bill, although for different reasons. The two feminists contend that since the proposed legislation narrowly bans only "obscenity" -- which is not protected by the First Amendment, courts have ruled -- this restriction may prove to be legally counterproductive. "If pornography is excessively violent," Dworkin explains, "very often a jury will find that it's not obscene because it's not sexually arousing...