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Carney's objections to the ROTC program mirror those of the faculty and other groups which oppose the Rudenstine compromise. And interviews with alumni who played important roles in Harvard's stormy history with the program reveal a split that is very much a microcosm of the current debate...
...four major companies had pulled out or announced they were reviewing their accounts. The most important defector may be British Airways, whose $125 million annual advertising spending earned Saatchi & Saatchi $9 million in profits last year. Other companies reconsidering their advertising deals include the candymaker Mars and the Mirror media group. In announcing that he too was thinking of closing his account, Stanley Kalms, head of the British electronics retail chain Dixons, called the Saatchi affair one of the "worst examples of corporate governance" he had ever seen...
What's new is that today the radio rightists are wired into the political process. In 1994 the scream rose to the top. These fervent spiels, in which we heard America slinging, stinging, cajoling, annoying, persuading, finally transformed the social dialogue. In a 1993 poll by the Times Mirror Center for the People and the Press, 44% of Americans named talk radio as their chief source of political information. Listeners tend to be white, male and hep to conservative ideas -- just the audience the Republicans wanted to mobilize...
...Contract includes many tax cuts that mirror Reaganomics. It proposes cutting and indexing the capital gains tax, which would mostly benefit the wealthiest Americans. Capital gains already enjoy tax loopholes not available to other investments or income; for example, the top tax rate is 39 percent, but the capital gains tax rate is only 28 percent...
...concede, reluctantly, that the lines of authority as currently drawn provided Dudley House Master. Daniel S. Fisher with the final decision in determining the content of "The Mirror of the Plague." However, I am uneasy with this. There should be a more democratic process to determine the choosing of exhibits. While Fisher and A-Raki may very well be competent in this area, why should their aesthetic judgements be inflicted upon the community, especially given the Dudley House population? What's to deter future conservative, authority figures from even more chilling decisions, say the decision to show only Norman Rockwell...