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...protesting Washington's high-handedness in easing him out. Last June, without a word to U.N. friends, a senior State Department official told the New York Times it would not permit the Secretary-General to serve a second five years. The move angered U.N. members as a blatant sop to election-year criticisms from right-wing Republicans. Third World sensitivities have been trampled, and allies are annoyed they weren't consulted. Others are furious at U.S. cheek in dictating choices when it owes the U.N. $1.5 billion...
...damage: the killer proteins produced by the macrophages. These proteins attack the cartilage and cause inflammation. One company, Immunex of Seattle, has focused on one such protein, called tumor necrosis factor. Immunex's treatment, which worked so effectively for Lindagail Dixon, consists of genetically engineered proteins that sop up excess tnf, interrupting the cycle of destruction. A third tactic, being developed by Amgen of Thousand Oaks, California, targets another inflammatory protein, interleukin-1, in much the same way. If approved by the FDA, all three drugs could be on the market in a couple of years...
...hoopla at Harvard over Wilson's well-publicized defection--and the corresponding gloom at Chicago--is a hallmark of how far black studies has come since its inception during the late 1960s. Back then, even die-hard proponents of the field concede, these programs were more a sop to the angry black students who had just begun to show up in large numbers on white campuses than a serious endeavor--the higher educational equivalent of building swimming pools in the inner city to take the heat out of long, hot summers. Poorly funded and often staffed by barely qualified teachers...
...TIME's J.F.O. McAllister. "One is that this is Clinton unable to restrain himself. He wins points with conservatives for the push to rein in teen pregnancy, but then he appoints a man they strongly oppose to head up the effort. The other explanation is that this is a sop to the pro-choice lobby. Clinton is tacking to the right, but then appoints their guy to run things." Foster will not be paid for the job, although he will get an office and travel budget at the Department of Health and Human Services. "The great thing about this...
...defang government, Gingrich would defund it. He and his party are insisting on $245 billion in tax cuts as a centerpiece of their effort. But is this great tax reduction flowing back into the pockets of all Americans? No. The tax reductions were, in part, a sop to the G.O.P. moralists who bemoan the dissolution of the family. The "family" tax cuts were aimed at people raising children, but not at all people raising children. The credits are worthless to the families in which a third of American children live, because those families don't earn enough to pay income...