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...added fuel to the fire this week, when it paid for a $2000 full-page advertisement in the Cambridge Chronicle outlining MIT's standpoint on the Tent City issue. The ad also criticized a Chronicle editorial that had faulted MIT for its handling of the eviction, which led to the arrest of 10 people...
...kind of share Roger Brockett's point of view that this is the correct thing to do from an academic standpoint even if it isn't what industry is crying for," said Sastry...
...have political events lifted spirits. The 1986 Senate elections were disastrous for the Moral Majority's preferred candidates. Last month's defeat of Robert Bork, an ideal Supreme Court nominee from the movement's standpoint, further suggested a loss of clout. As for issues like abortion and school prayer, Moral Majority spent millions "without achieving one piece of legislation," observes Evangelical Theologian Carl F.H. Henry. Fundamentalists this year also lost three significant court cases dealing with curriculum grievances against public schools...
...that said, one may well wonder at the wisdom of programming concerts as one might "program" a recording. Brahms's late music is beautiful and profound, but it is also, from an audience's standpoint, exhausting to listen to in long stretches...
...President won't give them something in exchange for a summit that he thinks is unwise from the standpoint of the United States," Shultz said on the "MacNeil-Lehrer News Hour...