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...reasons for this decision--I mean the real ones, not the ones dished up for public consumption--have not yet seen the light of day. Because I do not teach the fiction course, I possess no special knowledge of these matters. But I have reason to believe that there may well be a very interesting story here: a story in which professional jealousy, personal vendetta, career ambition and craven capitulation to bureaucratic politics have combined to deny freshmen the one writing course they really want to take...
Expert panelists from the trucking industry and various public interest groups debated federal deregulation of trucking in a segment of the PBS series "The Advocates" taped last night in the Arco Forum at the Kennedy School of Government...
Michael T. Clark '79 said he was disappointed that the first trial did not lead to public action to make the Combat Zone safer...
State Rep. Robert B. Ambler, who helped draft the law, suggested April 9 as the date the law should take effect because it is "the beginning of the religious season." That date would allow schools and public establishments enough time to inform teenagers of the new law and any resulting policy changes...
...PUBLIC TRUST is no doubt valuable for reintroducing the key issues facing public broadcasting today. But its solutions--obscured in page after page of tortured prose--tend to skirt the reality that advocating funding panaceas on a large scale will not change the political climate. To justify its proposals, the commission offers familiar attacks against commercial television, arguments which, though valid, do little towards establishing a workable proposal. No one should argue that public television in the United States should be put out of its misery. A practical solution might suggest concentrating on local efforts, reducing reliance on federal funds...