Word: roberts
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During the panel discussion, when asked about his impressions of America, Robert Wei from Peking University said the “diversity in this society” represented the “harmony” in America...
...care and social policy issues during each presidential election—found that 70 percent of Democrats see a socialized medical system as positive, while 70 percent of Republicans view it as negative. “We were surprised by how big the differences were,” said Robert J. Blendon, a professor of health policy and political analysis at HSPH. “I think it suggests how polarized the issue is going to be in the presidential election.” Blendon said that this divide between Republicans and Democrats is based on the differing ways...
...Arts and Sciences. Critics of Nichol have been outspoken in their charges against his management of the William and Mary endowment and policies he championed while president of the public Virginia college. “He has a record no other president would envy,” said Robert G. Marshall of the Virginia House of Delegates. “He should’ve resigned a long time ago.” Marshall spearheaded the effort among members of the House of Delegates to strip Nichol of the state-funded portion of his salary. In his letter of resignation...
Though some researchers say the sexual spree of the '20s was confined to big cities and campuses, the famous study, Middletown, by Robert and Helen Lynd, found otherwise. By the middle of the decade, their typical American town (Muncie, Ind.) was in full sexual bloom. The change came with erotic fashions, literature and movies, and an unsuspected sexual aid, the automobile. A team of sociologists, reassessing Middletown from 1976 to 1978, concluded: "The Middletown studied by the Lynds during the 1920s was in the throes of a sexual revolution as far-reaching as the one we have experienced during...
...power to prosecute hate crimes sounds like a good idea, unless you are (as I am) opposed to the whole enterprise of criminalizing people's thoughts. Others have made this argument at greater length (here's one example), but in reading about the King tragedy I was reminded of Robert Kolker's fascinating New York magazine piece last fall about the case of Anthony Fortunato, who was sentenced to seven to 21 years in prison for his role in the death of Michael Sandy, a 29-year-old gay New Yorker. Fortunato and three friends lured Sandy from...