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...announcement followed demands by professors for substantial salary increases, including a statement by 50 faculty members expressing "grave concern" over the "rapid and severe erosion of faculty compensation...
...Freedom" seems to have been engraved on the family crest in Minsk. The older son (Brent Spiner), a lawyer, is making a boodle. He is also spending rather freely on double martinis in rapid sequence, and he smokes in chains. He later switches to jogging, a decision of grave dubiety. What he cannot seem to do is get his nose out of a book or newspaper to pay some loving concern to his Gentile wife (Chris Weatherhead) or provide some fatherly guidance to their two children. This pair, a nine-year-old boy (Eric Gurry) and his 13-year...
...Soviet Union's invasion of Afghanistan is a deplorable act of aggression; the United States does have a responsibility to force the Soviet Union to see that such actions have grave international consequences. But Carter's militaristic response is not the right answer. The president is relying on the same assumptions that have doomed our foreign policy in the past--the belief in a bipolar world, in matching militarism with militarism. He is playing brinkmanship with the Soviets, threatening them with war to check their warlike advance...
...Washington feels out its new relationship with Moscow, there is no need for haste. Jody Powell has stressed that the White House does not "want to make sweeping statements about the ultimate nature of the relationship when we are clearly in midstride of a grave international crisis." It would make sense, for instance, to wait and see what happens in Afghanistan. Western experts in Moscow predict that the adventure will cost the U.S.S.R. more dearly than it had expected, in men, in material and most of all in world esteem...
...interpretation that may or may not bear resemblance to what the historical Jesus did or said. English-language reviewers of Jesus have been less confounded and perplexed about Schillebeeckx's notion of Jesus' divinity than about his murky meditations on whether Jesus rose bodily from the grave or merely lived on through some miraculous renewal of faith on the part of his disciples