Word: ops
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Network television offers disgruntled audiences no outlet as effective as a newspaper's Op-Ed page, or even a correction box. Yet the need for access of dissenting views may be greater in TV news than in print journalism. The time for nightly network coverage is minimal, the emotional impact often maximal. Inevitably, many stories are excluded and others oversimplified...
...MOST REPUGNANT strain of conservative thinking that has surfaced publically at Harvard and elsewhere recently is the "Now let us mourn for Indochina" school of revised history. Norman Podhoretz has made this his new gospel, preaching on The New York Times Op-Ed page and in his latest book, Why We Were in Vietnam. Closer to home, members of the Conservative Club have endorsed the message in their newspaper. The Salient, and in small rallies...
...paper's supposedly smug and selfish readers. One story reports that market forces have diverted distribution of a drug that will cure leprosy to use instead in treating tennis elbow. The jokes range from the incisive to the tasteless, and even the racist and antiSemitic. An Op-Ed column headlined COLORED PEOPLE MUST SUFFER TO PROSPER is signed "Thomas Soweto," deftly mocking the free-market views of Thomas Sowell, a conservative black economist who contends that racism is not the major cause of economic deprivation for blacks. Help-wanted ads have executives soliciting young male proteges and "preteen women...
They feel they have achieved a similar academic integration, by providing many distinct academic programs in the high school. The 2700 students attending Rindge and Latin enroll either in the main high school or in one of three alternatives--the Fundamental School, the Pilot School, or the Enterprise Co-op. The majority spend their four years in the regular high school, pursuing what outsiders would consider "normal" public secondary school education. But those with special needs may participate in the other set-ups. The Fundamental School follows the back-to-basics, three "R's" approach, offering the 400 students involved...
...most powerful central banker bunks down in a spartan, $394-a-month one-bedroom Washington apartment so cramped that he can receive only one visitor at a time. Then on weekends he commutes to New York, where his wife Barbara keeps house in an unpretentious Manhattan co-op apartment for their son James, 23, also a banker, who suffers from cerebral palsy. Though she is severely afflicted with arthritis, Barbara has gone to work as a bookkeeper for a small architectural firm to help out. Like many another cash-strapped American family, the Volckers are cutting back. They no longer...