Word: leveler
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...sends in a troupe of "Maxim Players" (Jennifer Litt, Will Provost, Fiona Tingley, and Manson Yew) who proceed to act out eleven of them. Sagal turns a potentially boring segment into an amusing vaudeville skit. Other scenes like this punctuate the show, keeping the action fastpaced and the energy level high...
...Education Department officials argue that higher education has become something less than the administrators' rosy picture of the ivy-covered university. "They always pull this moral argument where higher education is on the same level as the flag, mom and apple pie," says Miller...
...tendency to force people to put the ethical theory aside and I think they've straightjacketed their people by forcing them to work exclusively in the case-study method," says Donaldson. "To do business ethics without doing serious ethical theory is to do it at an elementary level, and is a half-hearted and inadequate approach...
...most importantly, by bringing charges of racism down to the level of petty political squabbles, the cartoon not only degrades all of us who seek to eradicate racism and intolerance, but also makes it that much harder for society to deal with the very real problems that such archaic attitudes present. Bigotry is a problem that is hard enough to address without having someone throw partisan politlcal baggage into the equation. Calling someone a "racist" because he has a different position on affirmative action (or South African divestment) is as unproductive and as intellectually stifling as calling him a "communist...
...book obviously has high-level support. No apparatchik would have dared authorize it without powerful political backing. Rybakov does not know if Party Leader Mikhail Gorbachev has seen it or cleared it. "The reason it is being permitted now must be that those on high must have felt it was timely and needed," says Rybakov. "They must have realized that until we have eliminated the consequences of Stalinism in the psychology of our people we cannot move further forward. If we say we wish to live honestly and truthfully, then we must be truthful about the past. We cannot bring...