Word: creationism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...past, this integrationist approach to women's studies has translated into a de facto repudiation of the discipline. The Faculty should seize upon the creation of the new joint-tenure position as an opportunity to evaluate women's studies throughout the College, and light a fire under the program...
...since apartheid became law for South Africans, and during that time, maintenance of the status quo--and even out-right regression--has often been masked by a show of reform. The latest such charade is a new constitution. Proposed by Prime Minister P.W. Botha, the plan calls for the creation of a three-chamber legislature, with separate representative houses for the country's five million whites, two and a half million coloreds and nearly one million Indians. But it excludes representation for the nation's 23 million Blacks...
...Nobel laureate. Hence the strange ambivalence of The Penitent. This "new" novel was first published in 1973. It exhibits Singer's narrative mastery, but none of his compassion; it offers only one character, Joseph Shapiro, and he is so acrimonious that in an afterword, Singer disavows his own creation: "While I was brought up among extremists who thought and felt like that angry man... I cannot agree with...
...trying to get rid of the traditional course boundaries," says Horwitz, whose specialty is Torts. The group is doing this going in two directions at once: more coordination in the teaching of courses and the creation of new "integrated" disciplines...
Today, icier relations with our Communist counterparts have motivated much of the rampant classification of documents and the sly, almost unnoticed creation of Executive Orders eroding freedom of information--such as one signed by President Regan on April 2, 1983, which said government officials were no longer required to consider the public's right to know when classifying documents. (of course, such tightening measures and obvious suspicion then contribute to worsening relations.) In the end, even if most agree that the Rosenbergs were convicted on questionable grounds, the release of information on the issue brings some insight--a value...