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...Absence of Religion and Morality (AALARM) to Peninsula to the executive board of the Harvard Republican Club, have launched a vocal campaign against what they describe as a single, univocal campus left. Concentrating their attacks on gay rights and women's rights, these groups have sought to portray themselves as embattled crusaders for morality in a spiritual wasteland...
...Smith, Si diligently informed Anthea Disney in person last year that she was through at Self -- by making a clumsy unannounced visit to her Connecticut home, where she was vacationing. Soon after Robert Bernstein resigned in November after 23 years as president of Random House, a seemingly orchestrated campaign portrayed him as having shown insufficient regard for profit margins during the previous five fast-growing years, in which company revenues doubled. And after Andre Schiffrin left in February as head of Random House's esteemed Pantheon division, where profit had always been secondary to literary eclat, company officials hastened...
Within days, the Vladimir Ilyich, with its cargo of Soviet helicopters, was called home to Leningrad. Shortly thereafter, Moscow denied a Sandinista request for emergency funds. "They wanted money to put consumer goods in the stores, so they could portray the economic situation as improving and attract voter support," says Pavlov. "We didn't think it was a good investment...
...Absence of Religion and Morality (AALARM) to Peninsula to the executive board of the Harvard Republican Club, have launched a vocal campaign against what they describe as a single, univocal campus left. Concentrating their attacks on gay rights and women's rights, these groups have sought to portray themselves as embattled crusaders for morality in a spiritual wasteland. And the name they have given to their enemy is the "moral relativist...
...task was to keep the Republican right quiet until the summit concluded, apparently did his job with far greater zeal than Bush intended. Sununu's efforts almost torpedoed the summit before it started. Democrats immediately took them as confirmation of their darkest suspicions -- that Bush is again trying to portray the Democrats as the high-tax party, by euchring them into proposing an increase that he could either virtuously reject or pretend had been rammed down his throat as the price for shrinking the deficit. "Now I wonder if this ((summit invitation)) is a good-faith effort or whether political...