Word: established
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Boston has weathered racial storms before, but until now it had never faced a proposal that would literally split the city. Next month, Boston voters in ten mostly black legislative districts will decide whether they want to secede from the city and establish a separate municipality called Mandela, after jailed South African Nationalist Leader Nelson Mandela and his wife Winnie. Covering 12.5 square miles in the center of town, Mandela would be home to about a fourth of Boston's 600,000 people, including most of its blacks...
...standards the Whitney has battled for -- the commitment to glitz that gave us the 1985 Biennial, the taste for inflated prettiness set forth in its Alex Katz retrospective, the reluctance to edit that made Eric Fischl's show such a letdown? True, Director Tom Armstrong valiantly tries to establish a link by pointing, in a catalog note, to Sargent's "highly expressive manner and his treatment of subject matter and narrative content, all of which are of great interest to contemporary artists." However, Sargent's "manner" was not that of a neoexpressionist but of a virtuoso; his drawing lacks...
...October 21 Crimson editorial entitled "Time for Fairness" may have given the impression that the Faculty Council has endorsed a proposal to establish a standing body for appeals from the Administrative Board. The Crimson editorial was meant to recommend such an appeals body, but there is no indication at this date that the Faculty Council, which is now reviewing the College's disciplinary procedures, favors the same...
Last summer, he announced plans to establish a mandatory drug-testing program for key government staffers, as well as a "voluntary" one for all federal employees. The President himself took a urinalysis and, though the results were not disclosed, presumably passed...
...humanities are "two cultures," radically opposed. More important than the poetry contests Herschbach holds in his freshman chemistry course is his role in the long-term development and "humanizing" of Harvard's science curriculum. In chairing the Curriculum Committee in Chemistry, he collaborated with Medical School administrators to establish the "life science"-oriented organic chemistry courses, Chem 17 and 27, as an alternative route through the "orgo" bottleneck...