Word: diversionism
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According to various feminists, the Meese commission report was good for the women's movement (Law Professor Catharine MacKinnon), bad for the movement (A.C.L.U. Attorney Nan Hunter) or basically irrelevant to feminist interests (Movement Pioneer Betty Friedan). "Today could be a turning point in women's rights," MacKinnon told a...
The mass exodus of hundreds of thousands of laid-off migrant workers --mainly Egyptians, Palestinians and Pakistanis--from the Persian Gulf could overtax their native lands and stir political unrest. While singling out no particular country, Secretary of State Shultz cautioned last week, "History teaches that nations in deep economic...
State Rep. Thomas Gallagher, a candidate for U.S. Congress, spoke against a "brain drain" caused by diversion of the university's intellecutual resources away from areas like medicine and pure scientific research and into weapons development.
In a separate and equally sobering development, the Treasury Department announced that Bank of America, the main division of the company, had agreed to pay a record $4.75 million civil penalty for failing to report cash deposits or transfers, each worth $10,000 or more, between 1980 and 1985. The...
In fact, it's hard to imagine why anyone would seek further academic diversion. Breathing the rarefied air of scholarly excellence as we do, discontent appears ungrateful, even unseemly. And yet, Veritas as a singular, ivy-shrouded aim can be stifling. While Harvard may boast the finest display of academic...