Word: starks
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With America now a good 25 years into its shopping mall era, even the mass media is taking stabs. In a recent Boston Globe feature/editorial on TV commercials, Steven Stark reworks for the 1980's Descartes' original thesis on the human essence: "Over the years, television's programs and commercials have changed, but one thing has remained constant: the message: I buy; therefore...
...were the Board's intent to "quieten" the campus by their actions, they should seriously reconsider. So long as the stark, moral issues of apartheid and Harvard's investment policy remain, there will be protest--and it will be as unremitting, vocal and publicized as ever. Furthermore, if it is perceived that the Board was deliberately and unjustly heavy-handed in their treatment of students-if it is felt that they seek not only to curtail "improper" conduct but also to chill ligitimate dissent, few students, I believe, will stand...
...also serves as a buffer for discontent. While the COI purports to discharge the University's responsibility to provide a channel for complaints against Harvard officials and departments, it can do nothing to insure that such complaints receive a fair and full hearing. Its impotence stands in stark contrast to the investigatory and decision-making powers...
...Mark L. Rosenberg of the Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta and Sociologist Evan Stark of Rutgers University have written that three broad themes emerge from the literature about violence: "The importance of unacceptable levels of poverty, racial discrimination and gender inequality; the cultural acceptance of violence as a way to manage dilemmas these and other situations pose; and the ready availability of lethal agents that can be used in violence against others or self." Social scientists see additional reasons: high unemployment, drugs, gangs, and the rise in female-headed households and births out of wedlock. The rate of black...
Nonetheless, this single-minded force is waging its campaign for social retrenchment at what may be a propitious time. Fundamentalists detect a widespread feeling in America of spiritual bafflement and dissatisfaction. Many commentators outside the movement agree. Sociologist Rodney Stark of the University of Washington, no Fundamentalist himself, thinks that the religious right makes quite accurate assessments. Antireligion and amorality have in fact been spreading in the public schools, he asserts, and "a majority of Americans are scandalized" by the apparent flouting of traditional values on television and in the press. Similarly, Michael Novak, the neoconservative Roman Catholic, says that...