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...betterment of society, and thus improve the lives of Black people in the long run. Many lesbian, gay and bisexual people (or those innocent of prejudice), hurt in the short run by the Colorado boycott, nevertheless support it. It is precisely this economic hurt that may be able to impel Colorado, or the Boy Scouts, to change their policies. Those who believe in the "reasons" for the discrimination practiced by these groups are welcome to spend their money as they will. As to whether Yale (or its student-run public service group) should be allowed to prohibit Boy Scouts from...
Having examined the October-November edition of the Peninsula, we are concerned that many might read the magazine's supposedly scholarly articles with credulity. The authors' manipulation of statistics and citations, in addition to their purported display of charity, could thereby misinform the public-at-large as well as impel anyone with homosexual desires to his or her emotional detriment...
...three institutions assured the public that these were isolated episodes. But the misdeeds by the reporters from the Times and the Post were simply more extreme examples of corner-cutting practices that are becoming regrettably common. Technology provides ever easier access to other journalists' stories. Financial pressures impel sheer productivity. Reporters see career advancement coming through literary stylishness or Watergate-type exposes instead of nuts-and-bolts checking. And editors at even the most prominent places increasingly call themselves "packagers" rather than seekers of news. Thus it is scant surprise that even experienced reporters make bad judgments...
...Kiss of the Spider Woman, the novel of two mismatched prison inmates that became an Oscar-winning film, Manuel Puig portrayed how enforced intimacy can impel people to enter each other's psyches. Mystery of the Rose Bouquet, now at Los Angeles' Mark Taper Forum, explores the same phenomenon. This time the setting is a hospital in Argentina, and the characters who drift into each other's dreamscapes are women -- an old contrary patient, rich and autocratic (Anne Bancroft), and a middle-aged nurse whose outward cheer belies a lifetime of thwarted opportunity and scant satisfaction (Jane Alexander...
...Jews but also against the Slavs, some of whom had originally welcomed the Wehrmacht for liberating them from Stalin. Once some kind of peace was re-established, in other words, could the Nazis have moderated their rule enough to make it tolerable, or did Hitler's psychotic drives constantly impel him toward new battles, toward the Holocaust, toward his death in the ruins of his nation...