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...member National Association of Scholars. With headquarters in Princeton, N.J., the N.A.S. has emerged as the cutting edge of faculty opposition to the excesses of multiculturalism and the replacement of traditional curriculums with courses about race and gender issues. One well-known N.A.S. critic, Stanley Fish, chairman of the Duke University English department, has declared that the association is widely known to be "racist, sexist and homophobic" and argued that its members should be barred from committees dealing with tenure or curriculum. But N.A.S. president and co-founder Stephen H. Balch, 47, insists that the N.A.S. seeks only to maintain...
...food is fine, too. Quincy Deli Day is excellent (most Deli Days are). Quincy fish pizziola is horrible (most fish pizziolas are). Quincy pioneer sandwiches are OK. That's Quincy House for you--a pioneer sandwich. Nothing spectacular. Just fine...
...along its puzzling way. Nobody in Washington could think or talk of anything except the war, but the states pursued their own parochial obsessions. Tennessee lawmakers banned the release of more than 24 nonbiodegradable balloons by any one person, in order to keep bits of rubber from choking the fish. Ten state senators in Washington proposed that the eastern part of Washington be allowed to secede and form a new state called Lincoln. "Lincoln was a great emancipator," said one of them, "and we want emancipation from Seattle." The Colorado House decided that you could be sued for making derogatory...
...economy fell like a souffle in a cold draft. Their formula: combine more expensive main dishes with less costly garnishes, and visa versa. An appetizer of crab cakes, for example, is accompanied by marinated black beans. Caviar is not out of the question, but it comes from a local fish called choupique (pronounced shoe-pick) and is said to be as good as any other American kind and is a lot cheaper than the Russian variety...
...Saudi shrimp industry and threatened plants and coral reefs along the coast of Kuwait and northern Saudi Arabia, favorable winds have so far kept it well north of the rich marine ecosystems in the bay of Bahrain. These marshy flats are the breeding grounds of large numbers of fish and shrimp and the favorite habitat of the rare dugong, the cousin of the American manatee that was already facing extinction before the war began...