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Imagine places where it is considered racist to speak of the rights of the individual when they conflict with the community's prevailing opinion. Where it is taboo to debate the moral fitness of homosexuals as parents, and sexist to order a Domino's pizza because the chain's chairman donates money to an antiabortion group. Imagine institutions that insist they absolutely defend free speech but punish the airing of distasteful views by labeling them unacceptable "behavior" instead of words -- and then expel the perpetrators...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Upside Down in the Groves of Academe | 4/1/1991 | See Source »

...Domino Effect...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Required Reading | 3/15/1991 | See Source »

...domino effect continued as Tigers Alex Marx bumped off third-seeded junior and Co-Captain Johnny Kaye...

Author: By Rebecca D. Knowles, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Racquetmen Swat Orange And Black | 2/4/1991 | See Source »

...these troubled times, ostentatiousness is out, austerity in. One person heeding that message is Tom Monaghan, the centimillionaire founder of the Domino's Pizza chain (1990 revenues: nearly $2.7 billion). Monaghan, an architecture aficionado and leading collector of Frank Lloyd Wright artifacts, has decided to abandon his $5 million dream house. Even though it was one- third completed, Monaghan halted construction of the 22,000-sq.-ft. mansion in Ann Arbor, Mich., which he had intended to be the keystone in a development of exceedingly expensive mansions designed by eminent architects. The pizza tycoon, who is shifting his attention toward...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CORPORATE LEADERS: Hold the Flamboyance | 2/4/1991 | See Source »

Saddam would have done better to consult Domino's Pizza, which put out a warning at 5 a.m. Wednesday that war was likely later that day. Domino's had $ noticed record delivery orders the previous night from the White House and Pentagon, presumably to fuel officials through crisis meetings. In fact, around 11 a.m. Tuesday during a meeting in the Oval Office with his top national-security advisers, Bush signed a directive authorizing the attack unless there was a last-minute diplomatic breakthrough. That afternoon Secretary of Defense Dick Cheney signed an "execute" order putting the directive into effect...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Battle So Far, So Good | 1/28/1991 | See Source »

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