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...mullacracy extends the same harsh treatment to independent-minded individuals. In 1982 Khomeini betrayed few qualms about having his former right-hand man and Foreign Minister, Sadegh Ghotbzadeh, executed; last July, when his fiercest hanging judge, Ayatullah Mohammed Gilani, asked permission to spare 340 penitent political prisoners, the Ayatullah overruled him and sent them instantly to their deaths. The government continues to interpret "counterrevolution" broadly enough to cover a multitude of so-called sins. Homosexuals, drug dealers and unfaithful wives are all targets for the firing squads. A woman who neglects to wear her head scarf may find herself thrown...
...people think of Jerry Falwell. Use words like rights and they think of Thomas Jefferson. Use civil rights and they think of Martin Luther King Jr. Because civil rights is justly considered among the most sacred of political values, appropriating it for partisan advantage can be very useful. (The fiercest battle in the fight over affirmative action, for example, is over which side has rightful claim to the mantle of civil rights.) Convince people that censorship is really a right, and you can win them over. It won over the Minneapolis city council. And if to do so, you have...
Statues at many schools get unwelcome coats of paint the week before the game, something John Harvard is all too familiar with. One of the fiercest small college rivalries in the country is between Wabash and De Pauw Colleges in Indiana. Each year the two schools vie for the Monon Bell--donated to the two schools by the Monon Railroad Co. in 1932--the winner holding the bell until the next game. Not surprisingly, many times students from the losing school have tried to steal the bell. The last successful attempt came in the late '60s when a Wabash student...
...fiercest U.S.-Japanese contests will be in the production of memory chips, which accounted for 22% of last year's $14.6 billion in semiconductor sales worldwide. Japanese companies startled the U.S. industry by capturing 70% of the market for the bestseling 64K RAM (for random-access memory), a chip that can store 65,536 bits of information. Now the battlefront is moving to the next generation of chips: a 256K RAM, which has four times the memory capacity of the 64K and is expected to generate annual sales of up to $3.5 billion by 1987. At least six Japanese...
...overriding trait of the two-term Senator from Ohio is his independent mind. Glenn is for nuclear power and says so in the face of the fiercest opposition. He publicly calls for the Israelis to stop building more settlements on the West Bank. He has defied organized labor by voting against its cherished picketing legislation, and union leaders have never really forgiven him. Glenn has uncommon political courage. Interest groups, no matter how sophisticated and strident, have learned that turning up the pressure only makes Glenn hang tougher. He cannot be intimidated...