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Mansfield's comments drew the debate out of the genteel world of academic disputes and into the fray of student activism. At first, students mulled the remarks and waited for clarification, but a month later, their reaction was dramatic...
Royer says "it is obvious now that Clinton seems to be a man who enjoys the fray. He loves politics. He doesn't see the government as the enemy. He sees it as a positive influence for change...
...committee. Some were rejected because their condition was fragile. There has been no major conservation." In an interview published in last month's issue of Art & Auction, Glanton (who is black) tried to nuke his critics with the claim that they were impelled by racism. Walter Annenberg entered the fray with the ponderous declamation that the hundred or so students who, headed by an engineer named Nick Tinari, are now seeking a court injunction to prevent the paintings leaving the U.S. are "just a bunch of complainers who act as if they're important figures in the art world. They...
Recently, the increasing number of pleas for human respect for flora and fauna have drawn on deep emotions and the moral imperative of conservation efforts. But until now, Agassiz Professor of Geology Stephen lay Gould has remained peripheral to the conservation fray, scoffing at what he calls the " shibboleths of the movement" and the "Catharsis" of any description of ecological deterioration...
...INITIAL STRATEGY WAS TO STAY ABOVE THE fray. As American firms like Compaq , and IBM brought low-cost personal computers to its shores, NEC, Japan's foremost personal computer manufacturer, controlling about 50% of the domestic market, loftily insisted that quality should take precedence over cost. But the price pressure got to the company. NEC has announced a new low-priced line, including one model for $1,740, about half the price of an earlier comparable machine...