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...issues today surrounding ROTC arefundamentally different from the issues in 1969.Then, students sought to abolish ROTC entirely.Now, students seek to end discrimination withinthe program...
Jared K. Rossman says the protests had a greatbearing on his decision to drop out of Harvardduring the 1970s. He became disinterested incontinuing his education at Harvard. Rossman sayshe was thrown in jail during the takeover and wasadvised to seek psychiatric help because he wassinging in his cell...
McCarthy allowed the New York Times to seek him out in El Paso, where he hangs his hat more days than not, but the paper didn't gain much purchase on the novelist. Meanwhile, due in the main to old-fashioned word of mouth, All the Pretty Horses broke free, sold some, won some awards and was acquired by Mike Nichols for the movies. The author bought a new pickup truck, set to work on The Crossing and clammed...
...policy as "trickle-down liberty." Human rights, democracy and trade are "linked inseparably and indivisibly," declared House of Representatives majority leader Richard Gephardt. Clinton's reversal "will encourage China's intransigence," added Senate majority leader George Mitchell. Rather than fight to revoke MFN altogether, these influential Democrats will soon seek to broaden the category of penalized products to exclude from the U.S. about $900 million in goods produced by China's army and its commercial partners. With many in Congress eager to demonstrate their toughness, that proposal could attract majority support. If it does, said Bradley, it could invite retaliation...
...troubled lot. Father Benjamin is a securities analyst always drunk, always cheating. His wife Elena is too obsessed with herself, the I Ching and the writings of Masters and Johnson to offer the teenage Paul and Wendy any semblance of stability. In turn, the children, pained and neglected, seek comfort in Seconal and promiscuity...