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Your articles and editorials regarding the conference, "Apartheid's Arc and the Palestinian Uprising: Making the Connections," have spawned an important discussion of the basic issue of free speech at the University. I am writing to correct the record concerning our decision not to approve the request to hold the conference at the Divinity School and, moreover, to affirm the School's commitment to the exercise of free speech throughout the University...
Despite the string of mishaps, experts insist the Navy's safety record has improved in recent years. During the 1960s, naval aviators averaged 15 accidents for every 100,000 hours of flying time. By the mid-1980s, the accident rate had dropped...
...slashed its work force from 105,000 to 38,000. Since the mid-1980s, the region's industries have diversified into computers, new fisheries and Pacific Rim trade. Unemployment has fallen to a 20-year low of 4.5%. Now business is so brisk at Boeing that not even a record-high work force of 110,000 is enough to meet production schedules. Last month 57,000 machinists went on strike at four Boeing plants, demanding a larger share of company profits. "We have gone through the hard times with this company," a union leader said, "and we want...
...Arsenio eats, sleeps and breathes the show," says Cheryl Bonacci, vice president of Arsenio Hall Communications, which was formed last year to handle his TV and record affairs. "When he's not doing that, he's sitting in his house writing songs. Things like going out just aren't important to him right now." Hall usually arrives at the office around 11, conducts personal business and prepares for the late-afternoon taping. After the show, he reviews the tape with producer Brown, who worked with him on The Late Show. Most nights he watches the show again at home...
Which pretty much leaves work. In addition to the five-day-a-week grind of his show, Hall has taped some antidrug commercials and is working with Reebok to promote a shoe that would "pay tribute to antiapartheid awareness." He co-wrote and co-produced his new Chunky A record album. Its cuts include a comic rap number, a satire of raunch rock ("Let me check your oil with my dipstick") and a straight-faced antidrug anthem titled Dope...