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Within half an hour, the building had been forcibly cleared and 184 students arrested; 45 were taken to the hospital. The students responded with a three-day protest strike, much argument, many furious demands and dire prophecies. "It's hard to believe," said one dismayed dean, "that something put together over a third of a millennium by Harvard men can be destroyed in a few days in April...
...need for clearer norms for safeguarding academic independence is particularly evident at Harvard. Real-world controversies and outside pressures have become a routine part of life at the University. Debates and demonstrations over public policy issues are frequent and often furious. And pressure to divest stock in companies that do business in countries with repressive governments has brought those debates back to Harvard's corporate home. Meanwhile, United States government agencies that provide funding for academic research are attempting to close the door on free and open scholarship, and the need for universities to lobby in support of federal...
That is how it was immediately after last April's accident at Chernobyl, in the Ukraine. Only after furious protests and demands for information from Sweden and other Western countries did the Soviets even admit that anything had occurred, and then they limited themselves to terse statements that only increased anxiety over the nature and extent of the mishap. The result, of course, was runaway rumors. In the absence of credible official information, stories began to circulate of 2,000 or more people dead and mass graves dug in the countryside...
Many feminists were furious that Rosenberg gave aid and comfort to a company accused of sex discrimination. Rosenberg maintains that the case against Sears was weak and that she merely told the truth about the preferences of some women. Says she: "I was responding to the question: Are there factors other than discrimination that can account for statistical disparities in the work force? And I said yes, and those factors include governmental policies, socialization, family responsibilities, and so forth." The EEOC case was built almost entirely on statistics. It produced no women who said they had been denied high-paying...
Peres' decision to go along with the deal left his party furious. Labor strategists saw the affair as an opportunity to involve Shamir, who was Prime Minister at the time of the hijacking, in a political scandal that might scuttle the power-sharing agreement whereby Shamir is due to switch jobs with Peres in October. Several Israeli press reports have suggested that Shamir may have had advance knowledge of the killings or helped cover up Shin Bet's involvement once he became aware of the facts...