Word: mainstream
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...wrong for The Crimson to have preconceived notions about the likely opinions of the Harvard Republican Club's broadly based membership of two hundred undergraduates. The club is a group on campus supporting mainstream political ideas, apparently far more in touch with the country's convictions than some supposedly objective journalists at Harvard. The Crimson's characterization of my opinions is erroneous, and the RUS is doing a good service in promoting thoughtful discussion of this emotional issue whether or not the so-called "pro-life view is also represented." Mark P. Lagon...
...with the King on a surprise trip to Iraq where he urged President Saddam Hussein to join the peace process. After years of taking a hard-line stand against negotiations with Israel, Iraq appears to be changing its tune. Iraq's President wants his country to be in the mainstream of the Arab world and not to be linked with the likes of Libya and Syria. "In the past," says a Western ambassador in Baghdad, "one could expect Iraq to have its own agenda. Any compromise with Israel was unacceptable. Now, Iraq will not stand...
Schuller's critics complain about both his method and his message. Conservative theologians maintain that he is mass-marketing an ersatz, individual-centered gospel that glosses over the troublesome doctrine of sin. Mainstream clergy are disturbed by Schuller's zealous push for conversion and his carnival-barker style. "His success-oriented message," says Congregationalist Browne Barr, former dean of the San Francisco Presbyterian Seminary, "is a happy optimism; it sells nicely, but it is just very shallow...
...While not accepting the responsibility for joblessness, many labor leaders recognize that their unions must adapt to the new realities of international competition. Says Giorgio Benvenuto, head of the Italian Union of Labor: "If the old unions fail to modernize their antiquated policies, they will be out of the mainstream...
...decides to seek true values on the open road. Somehow he talks his wife Linda (Julie Hagerty), a straight arrow with several bent feathers, into risking all their capital on this trundle into self-discovery. Their itinerary, compared with that of their role models, is truncated and painfully mainstream. It consists largely of Las Vegas, where she loses their nest egg in a night, and Hoover Dam, where they have a marital wrangle the scope of which matches the backdrop. But never mind this minimalism. Brooks (who directed Lost in America and co-wrote it with Monica Johnson...