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...Amnesty International as the recipient of the 1977 Nobel Peace Prize marked a welcome recognition of the London-based organization's dedicated efforts on behalf of political prisoners the world over. In its 16-year existence, Amnesty International has helped bring the issue of human rights to the fore in international diplomacy; more concretely, in the past seven years it has mounted major publicity and letter-writing campaigns on behalf of more than 15,000 political prisoners, and has succeeded in securing the release of over half of them...
...page textbook that accompanies the course contains thoughtful assessments of unstated TV-show presumptions and subtle moral issues often ignored in the sex and violence v. censorship debates. In one essay, the Rev. William Fore, communications director of the National Council of Churches, discusses messages directly or subliminally being transmitted to masses of TV viewers. Among them: the good are usually weak; power is good, even if you have to be evil to get it; happiness consists of limitless material acquisition. None of these views are new or wholly inaccurate, but pervasive repetition of materialism and situation ethics, churchmen argue...
Radner's work on theory, which deals, in part, with how organizations should channel and use data, stands at the fore of contemporary microeconomic theory, Elizabeth Allison, associate professor of Economics, said yesterday...
...That, in the long run, has to be the main criterion for judging sports movies. With a very few exceptions, these films don't aim at bringing any important theme to an audience. In an era of incredibly mindless films, sports movies remain in the fore of anti-intellectualism. The people who go to these films have to be sports fans, and jock-sniffers as a general rule aren't very concerned with internal meanings, just the final score...
Guaranteed Jobs. Carter's problems came to the fore at the National Urban League's annual convention in Washington. The organization's executive director, Vernon Jordan-one of the President's admirers-rebuked him for not working more aggressively to improve housing for the poor and "guarantee jobs for all who can work." As Jordan explained to a reporter: "We expected Mr. Carter to be working as hard to meet the needs of minorities and the poor as he did to get out votes. But so far we have been disappointed. [He] has fallen short...