Word: failing
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...feeling is hardly a new one at Harvard. Criticizing University policy has always been considered a little bit like correcting a rabbi on liturgy during services--sacriligious, audacious and irrelevant. If Bok and the Corporation did not believe they were somehow above the fray political convictions, why would Harvard fail to divest of its South African holdings, after faculty dissent, 10 years of campus protest and a general consensus on the question? Ignoring such ephemeral considerations may be well and good for the University, which one sage aptly described as being here forever, as opposed to the student body which...
...general, there is little that the U.S. can do actively and directly to affect the outcome of back-room Kremlin politics. Precisely because he is committed to what he calls "radical" reform, Gorbachev may fail -- and fall. A President Bush or a President Dukakis could end up meeting at the summit with General Secretary Yegor Ligachev, currently Gorbachev's leading opponent...
...behavior already lamentably available on the streets: rudeness, insensitivity, the steady thrum of flash-point violence. Bart thinks he has an older, better idea: orderly, considerate crowds in clean, pleasant surroundings, absorbed in a leisurely spectacle performed by happy, fulfilled heroes. How could people exposed to such idyllic wonders fail to carry some of their experiences out into the streets and their own homes? "I am an idealist, a Neoplatonist, I suppose," says Giamatti. "I grew up believing in values, and also believing we'll often fall short of realizing them. That training probably led me to baseball. The best...
...even the youngest potential stars, leading to intensive adult training guided by methodical, scholarly study. High-tech training wizardry is rumored to be compounded by steroids and other chemical help: indeed, one popular explanation in the U.S. for the 1984 boycott was Soviet fear that its star performers would fail drug tests. And as for the awesome women athletes, well, are they really women at all? Skeptics recall that Tamara and Irina Press, the hulking Soviet sisters who won five Olympic gold medals in the 1960s, dropped from international competition after sex tests were introduced. In this mistrustful vision, athletes...
With Bush creating sideshows and Dukakis muting issues, neither gains consistent support. -- Three battleground states -- Texas, Illinois and California -- hold 100 potentially decisive electoral votes. -- Despite rhetoric, the candidates fail to see inadequate schools as a national- security threat. -- The U. S. backs a cashiered Panamanian colonel seeking a coup against Noriega...