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While initial fears that the fires might disrupt the global climate by causing a "nuclear winter" have vanished, some scientists are making new predictions that catastrophic effects could be felt hundreds, perhaps thousands, of miles beyond Kuwait's borders. Researchers still have little information about the size of the giant black cloud of oil, gases, soot and smoke being pumped into the atmosphere hour after hour, day after day. But they now fear that what happens to this noxious mass during the next few weeks may affect the lives of hundreds of millions of people...
...suffocate [First Amendment rights]" simply lacks foundation. As I have stressed many times, students at the Law School are free to express their views on any subject in a variety of ways--in meetings with me, in letters and petitions and in rallies and demonstrations that do not disrupt the activities of others at the school or violate University rules. They do so regularly, and dissent at the Law School is not in short supply...
Inside San Francisco's venerable Tosca Cafe, filming for the mystery thriller Basic Instinct, starring Michael Douglas, was proceeding smoothly. But on the street a drama of another sort was unfolding: a crowd of gay activists carried signs, shouted slogans and continued their efforts to disrupt the action. The number of arrests mounted last week as they violated a temporary restraining order to stay 100 ft. away. In what moviemakers see as a dangerous form of politically correct censorship, the protesters are demanding that the script be changed because it depicts lesbians as murderers and contains a scene in which...
...Clark controversy is not unusual on today's combative campuses, but it reveals much about the nature of academic protests--and protesters--these days. Inspired by their nostalgia for the 1960s, militants jump at the chance to demonstrate and disrupt, no matter how flimsy or ill-conceived the cause. But when challenged to defend their actions either legally or intellectually, they cry foul and rush to the protective cover of their empty rhetoric and "victim" status...
From Clark's perspective, the issue is simple. The sit-ins keep him and other administrators from doing their jobs. He sees no compelling reason to allow students to disrupt the operations of the Law School by allowing them to violate the University rules they had agreed to follow. The students' liberal sympathizers may reject this reasoning on the grounds that the students are making a political statement that should not be suppressed. But would this position hold if the activists were conservative students disrupting the ability of University Health Services to provide abortion counseling? What if the Association Against...