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...suggesting that society police every nightclub and root out every raunchy record from store shelves. There will always be filth on the fringes of entertainment. The problem arises when filth becomes mainstream, when it is mass-marketed. A few giant corporations, including Disney, Fox, MCA, Paramount, Time Warner, Britain's EMI, West Germany's Bertelsmann and Japan's Sony, produce a huge proportion of our children's entertainment. Many parents feel that these companies should take the lead in setting the standards for everyone...
Students themselves should work to lower the cost of Senior Week activities. Elected Class Committee members sponsor Senior Week events and work with the Alumni and Alumnae Associations to plan them. These students should plan all Senior Week activities with a paramount concern for making them inclusive and accessible to all seniors...
Chamorro demonstrated diplomatic agility with the Sandinistas as well. In negotiating the transfer of power, the outgoing government's paramount concern was maintaining the integrity of the Sandinista army, considered to be the guarantor of Nicaragua's revolutionary progress. Chamorro worked out an agreement whereby the army will not be disbanded, but her government can reduce its size and determine how it can be used. She faced down demands that Defense Minister Humberto Ortega Saavedra, Daniel's brother, keep his post as army commander...
...nation where state and religion are often indistinguishable, Hartman's question transcends academic inquiry. And because it is David Hartman who asks it, attention is paid. For those who recoil from the ultra-orthodoxy that has captured so much of their country's politics, Hartman is perhaps Israel's paramount religious philosopher. For these Jews, Hartman is a rebbe, a particularly wise teacher. The measure of his impact is that right-wing scholars are truly frightened by his erudition. Most refuse even to discuss him. One who does, Rabbi Adin Steinsaltz, nevertheless only murmurs cryptically, "Millenniums can pass before...
...University needs to recognize undergraduate education as a paramount responsibility instead of a peripheral obligation to which only minimal attention is offered. Accordingly, the quality of graduate education will also suffer as Harvard produces an entire generation of academics adept at theorizing and producing mountains of research, but unable to convey it all effectively to the next generation...