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...that the humanities do not arouse passions at Stanford. A battle erupted % two years ago when several faculty members proposed to amend the required freshman reading list of 15 classics in order to include works by minority and female authors. The issue escalated into a national debate when Education Secretary William Bennett jumped into the fray to accuse the reformers of "trashing Plato and Shakespeare." Six weeks ago, in a deft compromise, Stanford's faculty senate voted to pare the required list to six classics plus at least one non-European work chosen by the individual professor with "substantial attention...
...United States has forced Honduras to harbor the contra army, several new U.S. airstrips and occasional groups of paratroopers. The natives are getting restless, and if they don't quiet down, Honduras too may soon be added to the list of unstable and crumbling Central American countries...
...addition to such altruistic motives as helping Third World development and atoning for its World War II guilt, Japan's almsgiving is prompted by enlightened self-interest. "If you want to see which countries are most important politically to Japan, just look down the list at how much aid they spend in each one," says Nathaniel Thayer, an expert in Asian studies at Johns Hopkins University. About two-thirds of Tokyo's assistance goes to Asia, a proportion that reflects its stake in the region as both a market for Japanese products and a source of cheap labor...
...when a Roper poll asked the baby-boom generation for its heroes, the rich and famous and superficial headed the list: Clint Eastwood and Eddie Murphy, celebrities standing in for real heroes. But the current wave of nostalgia for Bobby Kennedy may be a signal that the generation that retreated to self-absorption in the '70s and '80s may be ready to feel passion again. That Kennedy is a hero to them could be more than nostalgia; it may suggest a yearning, once again, to re-engage...
...rise of pink-collar occupations has put day care right at the top of the list of priorities, and this is thefirst major organizing drive that I know of whereday care has been a major issue and where male aswell as female workers have come out in support ofthe issue," Melcher said...