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Sometimes one has to wonder whether Harvard's president Derek Bok is deliberately provocative toward Black and other minority persons within his institution or whether Bok is simply hidebound insensitive toward crucial minority concerns. One of those times was last year during the controversy at the Law School about affirmative action in faculty hiring. Another time is right now regarding the controversial lay-offs among the University's structural trades workers, lay-offs which impact with disparate harshness upon Black workers...
...measure of the power of rock that it should be so sought after and imitated in a country where pop traditions are so hidebound. But Soviet rock so far is a feeble effort at cultural cross-fertilization, like the Rockettes doing a saber dance. Back in 1958, the great New Orleans rocker Huey ("Piano") Smith wrote a clownish cold war ditty that included the lines, "Like I said before, you can be certain/ You have rockin' behind that old Iron Curtain." Huey might be cheered to know now that it is there for sure and maybe for good. Even...
...cheers that were beginning to roll across the stunned square. Now it seemed to hit everyone at once. "E il Polacco!"?It's the Pole?said one onlooker. "Un Papa straniero!"?a foreign Pope?shouted others. The realization was beginning to sink in that the supposedly hidebound College of Cardinals had done not merely the unexpected but the nearly unthinkable...
...even worse problem is employee morale, which analysts agree is at a nadir. Scott has tried to get employees to change the stores' hidebound ways of doing things, at last allowing local managers some autonomy. The result so far has been confusion. The chain's expensive and somewhat mystifying Price and Pride ad campaign has been aimed primarily not at luring shoppers into the stores but at bucking up the spirits of workers. So far it has failed to spark much excitement...
...testimony to the rarefied and hopeless level of the Middle East debate if he were prohibited from saying that 1) the Palestinian people exist, and 2) they have legitimate rights. In his sometimes unorthodox use of language, Carter helped induce others to take a fresh look at the hidebound diplomatic formulas. In short, he shook things up in a salutary...