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EVER since Barry M. Goldwater campaigned against Social Security in 1964 and lost in a 44-state landslide, America's largest government income maintenance program has also been its most politically secure. The image of poverty-stricken, elderly pensioners--not to mention the political wrath of well-organized and politically active senior citizens--has stifled criticism from even the most conservative politicians...
Such stridence--not to mention the spirited criticism that shaped discussion of the issue all last year--is undoubtedly a good thing. As long as minority and women faculty hiring is alive as a political issue, department chairs and faculty committees will have to consider the race and gender implications of their hiring decisions...
Arsenio Hall, at the same moment, has no inkling of the earthquake either. (The news reaches him later, midway through the show, though he doesn't mention it on the air.) With minutes to go before his 5:15 deadline, he is in his dressing room, slipping into a stylish double-breasted jacket, glancing briefly at his cue cards and getting some final dabs of makeup. With only seconds to spare, he bops downstairs, wades through a phalanx of enthusiastic staffers, then darts behind a blue translucent curtain. The band blares, the announcer wails. Hall sinks to one knee...
When Young talks about winning, he doesn't mention anything about talent, except to say that a school "might have the best talent but not the best team...
...issue is a program initiated in the 1960s to keep tabs on the reading habits of the large number of East bloc immigrants in New York. The FBI seemed particularly concerned with persons perusing scientific and technical journals--not to mention people with funny names ending...