Word: creationism
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After a rancorous debate, the 249-member Central Committee approved a draft platform that will in effect end the Communist Party's seven-decade-long monopoly on political and economic life. Furthermore, the Central Committee proposed an overhaul of the party's ruling Politburo and the creation of a presidential system of government, putting extensive authority into Gorbachev's hands and granting him, at least on paper, more power than any other leader in Soviet history. Not bad for a party man who only two weeks ago was rumored to be resigning...
Liberals expressed disappointment last week that there had been no personnel changes in the Central Committee. Gorbachev may have decided that there was no point in shuffling the Politburo if the institution's days are numbered anyway. Current plans call for the creation of a Central Committee Presidium of about 30 members, presided over by a chairman and two deputies. In a bid to halt the secessionist trend begun by the Lithuanian Communists, the Presidium would include representatives from all 15 republics...
...into that of the Federal Republic. Since full monetary union is the capstone, not the cornerstone, of any economic union, Kohl's proposal is at least partly exhortatory. It is consistent with his view that unification must mean the incorporation of East Germany into the European Community, not the creation of a neutral Fourth Reich. What is remarkable is the rush. Kohl has obviously become convinced that without visible assurances of unification, East Germany will simply empty itself westward...
Another problem with the report is that it calls for the creation of a student-faculty "Advisory Committee on Free Speech" without specifying the composition or clearly defining the mandate and powers of such a body. The Faculty should make perfectly clear that student representatives should have parity with faculty members on the committee. The Faculty should also insist that the committee exist only in an advisory capacity, with no authority to arbitrate what forms of expression are acceptable or unacceptable...
...Faculty should approve the creation of the committee and encourage it to formulate an anti-harassment code. Harvard would do well to emulate the action taken at Emory University to curtail the use of what the Supreme Court has called "fighting" words...