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Nonetheless, Hardy believes he is exploring a realm that may help define the human race. Even though he has passed the reins of the Oxford research unit to British Botanist Edward Robinson, Hardy plans to continue his own work with the aid of his new prize money. One day, he hopes, studies like his will be extended to Asian cultures, helping to resolve the skirmishing among Hindus, Muslims and Sikhs. "They must realize," he says, "that their different religions are all part of the same...
...source of this blubbery oaf's X-rated capital is the London advertising business. But Self, first encountered drunk and disorderly in a New York City cab, is branching out into American moviemaking. This is a realm of invisible money, transparent friendship and deals as insubstantial as holograms. In Manhattan and Los Angeles, he is called Slick by people with names like Nub Forkner, Herrick Shnexnayder and Fielding Goodney, who communicates in the language of Upper Vulgaria: "Date-raped, Slick. Out on a date, you know? Remember. In fact it's an interesting distinction. With a regular rape, lust plays...
...side too. Until such a time when women are accepted as full and equal peers and colleagues, until male and female students have role models of both sexes, professional relationships between faculty members as well as student-faculty relationships will continue to be bounded by and limited to the realm of the sexual. (In this context, it is easy to infer that student peer harassment is part and parcel of the power imbalance which exists on the faculty level...
Although truth usually conquers such error in the realm of serious scholarly debate, there is less likelihood of dispelling the distorted beliefs about history that casual viewers bring away from docudramas. Few books ever become truly "definitive," in the sense that no further books are written to challenge their interpretation. But docudramas have far less often retraveled ground covered by previous examples of the genre. If the only show on a subject is erroneous, corrective information may not sink in when conveyed in the less vivid form of print. The TV networks are plainly within their constitutional rights to make...
...possible, his story." As State Department correspondent and diplomatic correspondent during the 1970s, Talbott had covered stories about defectors, agents and double agents--and the tricky business of telling them apart. Says Talbott: "I went back to a number of sources from that realm, some of whom, it turned out, had been watching Shevchenko closely for years. All indications came back positive: Shevchenko was authentic and reliable...