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Shevardnadze has proved to be an equally trusted Gorbachev lieutenant on the domestic front. He confers with the Soviet leader at least twice a day, discussing topics that might range from the country's ethnic unrest to land leasing and family farms. Foreign Ministry staffers, with their boss's encouragement...
And at the Law School, President Bok has overriden the recommendations of faculty by denying tenure to critical scholars. Most recently, President Bok again overrode faculty to appoint a new Dean whose stated goal is to "combat" critical views in jurisprudence. Newly appointed Dean Clark also spoke scathingly of Professor...
Gorbachev has been able to demote but not purge from the Communist Party's ruling Politburo Yegor Ligachev, his conservative thorn. Ligachev and his allies, who include former KGB chief Victor Chebrikov, could become even more antagonistic out of dismay at the fate of fellow party traditionalists in the election...
Still, Arafat's recognition of Israel's right to exist -- expressed in language acceptable to Washington if not to Jerusalem -- has altered the political dynamics. The fact that five prominent American Jews coaxed Arafat until he finally got his rhetoric right in December demonstrated the changing role of American Jewry...
Greatly assisted by three grossly misleading Crimson articles, which treated the incident as a straightforward occurrence of homophobic violence and implied that Mather House was thus divided only between enlightened citizens and petty bigots, Defeat Homophobia was able to turn a bizarre and unresolved charge of gay-on-straight harassment...