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...just talking: last week he introduced a bill in Congress containing steps aimed at halting the deterioration of the environment. For one thing, the proposed law would replace the White House's Council on Environmental Quality with a new body. Called the Council on World Environmental Policy, it would refocus attention on ecological problems of the planet as a whole. The bill also calls for tougher U.S. fuel-economy standards for autos and a phased-in ban on chlorofluorocarbons, the chemicals that exacerbate the greenhouse effect and destroy the stratosphere's protective ozone layer...
...largest probe ever of a U.S. securities firm. Declaring that the long-awaited agreement "makes sense from a business and human point of view," Joseph, 51, tried to be upbeat. The deal, he said, would leave the firm "in a very strong financial position, and allows us to refocus our energies on running the business successfully...
...debates only worsened the problem, and increasing their number in the future is unlikely to refocus campaigns on the issues. Debates, like ads, overemphasize the personalities of the candidates. They seem to satisfy some primitive urge to see rivals go after each other man-to-man, and have all the farce and hoopla of a professional wrestling match...
...friends and members of the Fly are to successfully defend their integrity on campus, they must answer critics' moralegalitarian arguments. Only the First Amendment guaranteeing "the right of the people peaceably to assemble" will serve as an effective line of defense. Members and fans of the Fly must refocus the debate so that the injustice to men who merely choose to associate with other men on their own private property is brought to the forefront. In a state as liberal as Massachusetts, the Fly Club must explicitly invoke the First Amendment before the MCAD. Otherwise, the Fly might very well...
WHAT ROLE does Harvard have in all of this? Harvard is, like it or not, the de facto leader of the higher education community. "Where Harvard shifts, others will shift," acknowledges Secretary Bennett. It thus lies within Harvard's power to encourage higher education to refocus its efforts...