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...campus furor over Peninsula's homosexualityissue put the journal in the spotlight, provokednewspaper coverage and gave the magazine anotorious reputation as "the" conservative andcontroversial campus publication...
...rivals -- and how simple it would be for those relations to devolve into an equally cold peace. To the extent that it has dramatically underscored the delicacy of the new relationship, the Ames scandal could probably not have come at a worse time for the Clinton Administration: the furor has galvanized opposition to the President's unstinting support for Russian reform at a moment when there are disturbing signs that the bulwark behind that reform, Boris Yeltsin, may be buckling under pressure from hard-line forces...
...furor comes at a bad time for Farrakhan, who has been trying to expand his power base. He publicly performed Mendelssohn (a Jewish composer) on his violin and talked of reaching out to Jews. A Farrakhan speech in New York City this December drew 30,000 people, a crowd that would be impressive for a rocker, much less a lecturer. In September U.S. Representative Kweisi Mfume of Maryland, head of the Congressional Black Caucus, announced that he had formed a "covenant" with Farrakhan and that the caucus would work with him. But after Muhammad's diatribe, Mfume asked Farrakhan...
Nothing better illustrates this point than the furor provoked by Professor Harvey Mansfield's testimony for Colorado's Amendment Two. Uttered miles away from Harvard, and with little or no possibility of affecting Harvard undergraduates (as Harvard undergraduates), Mansfield's impieties struck an ideological nerve and became the biggest story of the semester...
...discussions in Moscow will focus yet again on the proposed expansion of NATO and on Yeltsin's reform plans. A new furor about the NATO issue exploded last week when Lithuanian President Algirdas Brazauskas formally applied for membership in the alliance. The Kremlin put out a statement warning that such moves could generate "undesirable attitudes in civilian and military circles" and "lead to military and political destabilization." Russian Defense Minister Pavel Grachev grumbled, "We don't like their seeking protection by hiding in NATO...