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...lobby faces special challenges, in fighting assumptions so deep-seated that most people are not even aware of them. The conceptual jump from homophobia to tolerance can probably take place for a heterosexual in only two ways--personally, through actually discovering the homosexuality of a friend too close to discard, or politically, by observation of the inescapable parallels between the plight of gays and minority issues to which they have less resistance. As numerous discussions of "visibility" have stressed, it is far more difficult to hate a gay classmate or neighbor than to hate gays in the abstract. But that...
...here as an Undergrad, he recalls, the department spent two days on Marx; one to present his theories, and one to explain why they were wrong. Ten years later, after reading Marx thoroughly, Marglin still reached the conclusion that Marx's broad theory was invalid, yet he refused to discard Marx entirely He, lime many radical economics, abandoned Marx's strict gospel in favor of newer theories Yet Margin charges few students of mainstream economics understand or appreciate this shift Otto Eckstein. Warburg Professor of Economics says there is not much non Marxist radical theory Few mainstream economists would dispute...
...daunting task of editing Kissinger's insightful and often elegant prose went to Assistant Managing Editor Ronald Kriss. "For every Kissinger word we used, we had to discard 19," laments Kriss. "Kissinger's themes are so tightly interwoven that separating material by subject, as we chose to do, is particularly difficult." Completed excerpts were sent by courier to Kissinger, who would then telephone Kriss with comments and clarifications. "He is an excellent text editor," says Kriss. "He is also an absolute workhorse. With help from TIME'S switchboard, he was able to find me just about anywhere...
FREE ENTERPRISE ZONES are the closest President Reagan and his conservative congressional buddies have come to suggesting any new program at all to help the under-privileged. If this were the only thing the proposal had going for it, it would still be unwise to discard it too quickly...
...traditional discrimination against Blacks and others, but also take concrete action to increase minority representation. The law review staff should this week commit itself to electing a specific number of minority editors at the next possible opportunity. The review staff should leave the decision of when to discard special provisions for minorities to a future body of review editors--which will be better able to understand minority needs because it will include a significant number of minorities...