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...communicate, they can arrive at different definitions of academic freedom--as has happened in this case. Comments which Thernstrom and his supporters find justifiable are absolutely out of bounds in the eyes of some students. For them, Thernstrom's appeal to academic freedom is nothing more than a sham which avoids the more important issue of race relations on campus...
...voting. From Port-au-Prince to Washington, virtually everybody seems to discount the possibility of a fair contest. Says a politician who ran for the Senate two months ago but refuses to participate this time: "There is nothing certain about these elections except that they will be a sham...
...like his comedy), can wear thin when the text of his sermon is the cupidity of women and the stupidity of men. Richard Pryor, Murphy's stand- up role model, earned his right to obscene rage. In the younger, middle- class comic, anger seems a petulant pose. Like any sham evangelist, he can entertain without convincing. And even in this ragged turn, a viewer can do with Murphy's comedy what Murphy complains most women want to do with his immense fortune: take half...
...fact he is a quarterback-quarte rback. "Only Syracuse promised me that I would be the quarterback and that I'd be allowed to do quarterback things," he says. "Other schools talked about trying me there but said to keep receiving in mind, and maybe defensive back." This sham goes back as far as leather helmets, but the schools leaving it behind are increasing. No fewer than 15 black quarterbacks have been leading major college teams this year, including Nebraska's Steve Taylor and, until he was injured last Saturday, Oklahoma's Jamelle Holieway...
...insure their substantive content is more than a sham, the court will have to move in the direction of proportional representation," Bell said...