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...when Washington narrowly won the Democratic nomination in a three-way primary race against former Mayor Jane Byrne and Cook County Prosecutor Richard M. Daley, son of the legendary boss. Chastened, Washington's white opponents are now trying to unite behind a single challenger. Says Chicago Political Scientist Paul Green: "The name of the game is to get Harold Washington one-on-one. That's the only way you can beat...
...Rosenthal's article would have been better if he had either (1) mentioned that he was not a scientist, and then complained about the use of scientific terms among and for non-scientists, or (2) discussed terms less familiar to non-humanities concentrators or to a greater percentage of the Harvard community as well. Yet despite the article's shortcomings, Mr. Rosenthal's point--that we might want to know more about the phrases we encounter and use--can be welltaken. Linda L. Hermer...
Part of being a responsible researcher is being a responsible publicist. On the basis of one or two research articles published last spring, Reinherz's team tentatively announced major implications for the treatment of cancer and AIDS. Is it a mere coincidence that a scientist who published a press release and reached for the newspapers at the time of a discovery is the same scientist who ends up having to retract his findings? Rather than a coincidence, the case may be a symptom of the changing environment of scientific research...
...Soviet press lately: that the illness is the result of U.S. germ-warfare experiments gone wild. AIDS experts scoff at the farfetched notion, and Washington has accused the Soviets of waging a "disinformation campaign." U.S. Ambassador to Moscow Arthur Hartman publicly protested a Pravda cartoon depicting a U.S. scientist and an officer exchanging a vial of AIDS viruses...
...doubt that the Reaganauts, except perhaps for the President himself, have any great gift for the art of political compromise. Indeed, just about the only aide left in Reagan's inner circle who is adept at handling Congress, Mitch Daniels, may leave the Administration soon. Norman Ornstein, a political scientist at the American Enterprise Institute, says that with the exception of Daniels, "I don't think there's a single individual in the White House with a good understanding of how to work with Capitol Hill...