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Founded by Randall Terry in 1987, Operation Rescue sprang to prominence with a 46-day clinic blockade in 1991 that nearly paralyzed Wichita, Kansas. This year the organization has intensified its harder-edged tactics aimed at clinic employees: wanted posters of doctors, picket lines around their homes, and harassment of their children and neighbors. After one such target, physician David Gunn, was shot to death in March by a man connected with an unrelated but similar organization, "the pro-life movement was on the ropes a little bit," admits Operation Rescue's national spokesman, Patrick Mahoney. Nonetheless, Rescue continued...
Clinton's wavering on appointments also signifies a lack or organization. Why, after such problems sprang from the nominations of Zoe Baird and Judge Kimba Wood for Attorney General, didn't the Clinton team scrutinize its next choices more? If the press could find Stephen Breyer's "Zoe Baird Problem" and Lani Guinier's inflammatory writings within a week of the release of their names, why couldn't Clinton & Co.? The public's disillusionment with the president could come from his snatch-and-grab appointments as much as his programs...
Nevertheless, the embers flared as the Coalition for Diversity, a consortium of minority student groups, sprang forth this spring with a list of demands and ultimatums, branding Harvard "the Peculiar Institution" in flyers distributed at Junior Parents Weekend...
While most audience members understood the immediate plot, people seemed more bewildered with the play's violent end. When the "actor playing Frank" sprang out of the script and told the audience to leave, some actually got up and left. While Oppenheimer's script is really not subtle enough to break down completely the boundary between reality and artifice, the lively production nonetheless elicits a response from the audience as frank as, well, Frank...
That's not to say that Larsen Librarian of Harvard College Richard De Gennaro has done everything right. De Gennaro should have consulted students at every step of his planning process. Instead, he sprang elaborate, complete plans on surprised students and faculty members. He had commissioned blueprints for the changes long before he brought the proposal before either faculty or students...