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However, The Crimson made the change of name sound like a flight from the central subject matter of psychology to computers and biology. The opposition of content to tools and approaches is largely empty because personality, social, and developmental psychology all use computers and get as much out of biology as they can. I do not, of course, mean to suggest that there are no contemporary trends, mainly an increased interest in the study of cognitive processes, but obviously cognitive processes have developmental, social, and personalistic aspects. I do not think that our department will ever be tempted to make...
...with the West against Soviet Communism. Declared Anglican Bishop Desmond Tutu, the winner of the 1984 Nobel Peace Prize: "What has Nelson's release to do with Sakharov? I can't see why they are linked. It looks like a ploy that a politician has thought up, that will sound good to ears in the West (and show) that he is concerned about prisoners of conscience --when he's got so many prisoners of conscience of his own." Other observers speculated that while Angola might be interested in a prisoner swap, the Soviet Union would be unlikely to consider...
...papers. He is media savvy, not overtly calculating. He loves to talk (he does so with unselfconscious self-absorption), to expatiate in professorial detail (with the slightest hint of a lisp). He is also a modern haiku master who can distill a complicated answer into a crisp, 15-second sound bite. When necessary, he can be circumspect. After Giuliani testified at a recent hearing in New York on medical malpractice, one reporter tried to engage him in debate about the Mafia. He smiled mischievously. "Remember the rules. You ask the questions, I say, 'No comment...
...Sweeney. In Hinsdale, Ill., for example, Fran Gaik shows off her new exercise center with all the enthusiasm householders once displayed for renovated living rooms and master bedrooms. The contemporary black-and-gray room with padded wallpaper and a mirrored wall contains a built-in sound sys- tem, a luxurious whirlpool-sauna and tanning bed, and about $4,400 worth of exercise apparatus. "It's very sensuous," says Gaik, 35, who with her husband owns a company that sells health insurance. "My friends almost look at it as an orgy room...
With only days to go before this week's presidential election, Marcos did not sound like an indomitable incumbent. Miffed at press reports casting doubt on his wartime record and personal finances, he angrily denounced those "now ! engaged in rumor-mongering and black propaganda." He suggested that the reports emanated from the "dirty tricks department" of Challenger Corazon Aquino's "desperate campaign." Late in the week, Marcos announced that the military had uncovered a plot to assassinate him while he was on a campaign trip to Iloilo City...