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In addition to giving time to many marginal sports, NBC is airing a lot of preliminary heats and compulsory competitions, making the events just that much harder to keep track of. Why show swimming and rowing heats in which the top competitors, according to the announcers, are expending only enough...
In response to a former Business School professor's charge that new evidence submitted in her sex discrimination suit last week "impeaches" testimony by the school's dean, Harvard's attorney filed papers in federal court Wednesday calling the new documents of "marginal relevance" in the case.
This formalist geography lesson could not last, of course. In the '80s it came apart like wet Kleenex. America has no single culture, but cultures. And so it should, since diversity is better than monotony. In any case, many ethnic Americans are still exiles within the dominant, white matrix. One...
More good news: the opportunity for conservation is considerable, considering the scale of profligacy now encouraged in Western agriculture. Throughout the region, scarce but subsidized water is inefficiently flooded onto marginal soil to raise crops like cotton and rice that are already in surplus and must often be bought at...
Carlucci does talk about cutting "force structures," meaning numbers of troops, ships and planes, and of axing "lower priority, marginal" weapons systems, especially those still in the research-and-developm ent stage. But so far, he refuses to chop any of the superexpensive weapons programs that such experts as former...