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Hsieh said the AAA intends to inform people going to the show that it "actively resists this sort of racial stereotyping." He added that the goal of the demonstrations is to have the character removed from the script...
Archie C. Epps III, dean of students, said yesterday he called SOH members yesterday to inform them Harberger was not coming. "I didn't want them to find out at the last minute," Epps said, adding, "It might have angered them and it also seemed the only fair thing...
...called police about a suspicious vehicle, but a quick-witted reporter shooed officers away by protesting: "What's the matter with you guys? You're screwing up our investigation." An NBC van was parked near Williams' home in Washington even before the FBI agents came to inform the Senator that he was a subject of investigation. And so the Senator's look of surprise and dismay appeared on prime-time television...
...challenge, says Holmes, is "to present statistics as a visual idea rather than a tedious parade of numbers. Without being frivolous, I want to entertain the reader as well as inform him." In some cases, the very curves of plotted statistics suggest an image. Thus the lines on this week's Business graph tracing OPEC's contribution to inflation became the band of an Arab headdress. "I have to be careful to choose the right symbols," he says...
...tide has not flowed entirely in Moscow's direction. In 1948, after Tito persisted in pursuing an independent policy, Yugoslavia was expelled from the Corn-inform, the international alliance of Marxist-Leninist states headed by the U.S.S.R. China under Mao grew increasingly upset over Soviet "revisionism" in the early 1960s. All Soviet advisers were expelled, and since then relations with Moscow have varied from cool to hostile. Three other Communist countries are no longer dutiful Soviet satellites. Albania, from 1960 through 1978 a xenophobic bastion of Maoism in the Balkans, now scorns Peking, Washington and Moscow alike. Rumania, although...