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Thirty-nine graduate students have joined the fray over President Neil L. Rudenstine's decision to deny tenure to Associate Professors of Government Bonnie Honig and Peter Berkowitz...
Your report was an affront to decency in general and the troubled family unit in particular. Amid a world in chaos, as America's moral fiber continues to fray and its societal underbelly softens, you place on your cover a glorification of unnatural sexual behavior. Shame on you, TIME! JACK E. SHULER Londonderry, New Hampshire...
...Republicans whispered contemptuously about what they described as his sanctimonious air. "Hatch is not a team player," a Senate Republican grumbled. In a more public backlash, the conservative National Review recently dubbed Hatch a "Latter-Day Liberal," a play on his Mormon religion that Hatch found offensive. As the fray mounted, one of the bill's co-sponsors, Robert Bennett of Utah, dropped...
...heat on tobacco shows no sign of lessening. With 22 states in the fray so far, others are certain to join in. And companies face more than a dozen private class-action suits and hundreds of individual lawsuits. At the same time, cigarette makers--minus Liggett--will soon troop to court in Greensboro, North Carolina, to hear a judge's decision on whether to allow new fda rules that say tobacco billboards must be at least 1,000 ft. from schools and that require young smokers to show photo...
...fervor. During a 1957 visit to Moscow, Mao took Khrushchev aside and pointed out the diminutive Deng: "See that little man there? He's highly intelligent and has a great future ahead of him." Nevertheless, one of the most devastating, man-made catastrophes of the 20th century would fray their comradeship and wound China almost mortally...