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Disregard of Privacy. Jones does not find much concern about the privacy of public figures. Readers do resent disregard for the "feelings of individuals like themselves who for no fault of their own are thrust into the news. They resent photos that show grief-stricken families or that hold someone up to ridicule...
...definition of harassment, "the in appropriate attention by an instructor or the officer who is in a position to determine a student's grade or otherwise affect the student's academic performance. "It sets up some useful ground rules--for instance, any "amorous relationship" under such circumstances is the fault of the professor, a distinction that remained uncertain last spring when the dean ruled on the much-publicized case involving a female freshman and a visiting professor...
...Roadrunner Hour. It features hordes of comic-strip Nazis goose-stepping into the life of the Freud family, the latter annoyingly over-endowed with satiric wit. Freud cuts a shabbily sympathetic figure, indulging his id with streams of forbidden cigars, lisping out lines like. "Is it my fault that I hit on it first? Did, anything prevent you from discovering psychoanalysis?", flaunting a preoccupation with incest, anality, and just about everything else the Viennese bourgeoisie lacked a penchant...
...others, and he is unpersuasive about how he would have done better, despite the benefit of hindsight and the opportunity to pose solutions that cannot be tested against events. The Administration's dithering over the Soviet-Cuban intervention in Ethiopia was, he asserts, a disastrous turning point. The fault, he quickly adds, lay largely with Vance and others who were loath to exert power. If Brzezinski had had his way, the U.S. would have sternly warned the Kremlin about the effect of its Ethiopian gambit on arms-control talks. He would have perhaps even sent an aircraft carrier...
...fact that the protestors have begun protesting so vocally is partly the fault of the research scientists. Animal researchers are not ex-concentration camp guards. Many have pets of their own, and most study animals because they enjoy being around animals. Their chief error is one of public relations: they tend to avoid contact with animal protection groups and the media...