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Duke University Professor Peter H. Wood '64 and congressional committee counsel M. Washington ran on a pro-divestment slate and captured two of the six seats up for grabs. Two of the other winning candidates nominated by the University, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Frances FitzGerald '62 and former MIT President Jerome B. '37, have spoken out in favor of divestment publicly, while another elected Board member, Presidential candidate and U.S. Senator Albert Gore, Jr. '69 (D-Tenn.) has vocally supported sanctions against South Africa...
Rarely if ever has the pilgrim Pope -- this U.S. trip is his 36th major voyage since assuming the throne of St. Peter in 1978 -- been blanketed under so many layers of watchful security. The 1,500 people who traveled to Miami's airport to bid the Pope welcome ran a gauntlet of some 7,000 National Guard troops, state and local police and agents of the Secret Service, which budgeted $5.5 million for the papal trip. Their roadblocks and security checks rendered the city's streets eerily empty. The intensity of the precautions cut into the size...
When TIME ran a cover story on the crisis in American child care (June 22), some readers wrote to ask what our company was doing to solve the problem within its own ranks. It was an appropriate question. Time Inc. was then in the process of putting together a pilot child-care program for its New York City employees. The new venture, called the Work and Family Program, will make its debut this week. Says Jane Cummins, an assistant manager in Human Resources and a member of the planning committee: "We want to provide a full service for employees with...
...complicating the separation. At 11, circulation was halted, and the critical hour began. By 11:20, the last connection was severed, and the tables were swung apart. "It was a very moving moment," Rogers recalls. "Everyone was silent and astounded." Still, there was much to do before the clock ran...
Zealotry, in fact, produces a kind of hyperrationality of technique. The trains carrying innocents to the Holocaust ran remorselessly on time. That is fanaticism's special gift, its special horror: its ability to routinize, to rationalize, to bureaucratize murderous irrationality...