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...research) in hiring, salary and tenure. It is, in all, a challenging document, designed to generate the same kind of debate and groundswell of reform that has followed the earlier study on schools. Chairman Mortimer, for one, is confident the reforms will come. "This is the year the spotlight gets thrust on higher education," he says. "It's almost a window of opportunity." -By Ezra Bowen...
...spotlight of Nobel publicity casts a pitiless glare, of course, and if Seifert seems a rather modest and provincial talent to become so celebrated, he has nonetheless survived honorably in a time and region where that capacity was harshly tested. Born to poverty in 1901, he published his first book of poetry, A City in Tears, when he was 19. He was an idealistic Communist in those days, but two trips to the Soviet Union in the 1920s were disillusioning. When he challenged the Stalinist leadership of the party, he was expelled...
...question the press should concern itself with is whether even the suspicion of sleaze should be thrust into the spotlight, given the near impossibility of removing the taint of allegations. Reputations take years to build and minutes to destroy...
...like to know the names of those community leaders who called the dismissal of one officer a "cover-up"; as with the rest of this column, Mr. Feinberg is long on opinion and woefully short on facts. In fact, two weeks after the convention, after the media spotlight had ended, the Dallas police chief met with minority leaders to hammer out a more restrictive deadly force policy; a solution which satisfied all parties involved was agreed upon and is now in effect. That is the way we do things in Dallas. Rather than confrontation, Dallasites seek negotiation; rather than violence...
Since then, Yves has been the looming figure perpetually getting in the way of Karl's owned and operated spotlight. Although he insists that Saint Laurent is "the high-fashion designer I prefer to all the other ones," Lagerfeld created a furor last spring with an interview in the Paris-based monthly Actuel in which he had some saucy things to say about his fellow designer. Certainly the reflections (which Lagerfeld claims were not intended for publication) were not out of character for a man who says, "I respect nothing, no one, including myself. Respect is not a very...