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ONE AFTERNOON you walk into section expecting, if anything, the usual exercise in rhetorical questions, when the section leader opens class with a real question--she asks for a show of hands. "Would everyone agree to the idea of holding section at today's abortion rally on campus? Feel free...
Like an acid rain, cocaine is pouring from the sky and corroding everything it touches. Although the battle to keep coke and other illegal drugs out of U.S. offices and factories may be a winnable one, shutting those substances out of the country is another story. The Reagan Administration's...
While Cruse and West are men of ideas, Farrakhan is not. Rhetorical excesses define Farrakhan, while respect for words are the hallmark of intellectuals like Cruse and West. Furthermore, Farrakhan emphasizes a pull-yourself-up-by-the-bootstraps mentality that is at odds with the approaches of both Cruse and...
SELF-STYLED WATCH DOG of American higher education, Accuracy in Academia (AIA) has taken its so-called "operations" into the Ivy League. Last week, the right-wing group telephoned a professor at Princeton to question his choice of course books and his selection of an East German guest lecturer. The...
With that highly rhetorical offer, Botha announced that his government might be prepared to end the 23-year imprisonment of Mandela, the leading figure in the outlawed African National Congress, the country's most popular black political organization. Botha's price: the release by Angola of a South African officer...