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...thus exacerbate antipapal feelings there. Militant Protestants have already marched in the streets of several British cities to protest the expected visit. While a go decision would naturally not sit well with Argentina, the planning has reached such an advanced state that cancellation at this point might generate more static than it would prevent. And last week John Paul, in a general audience at St. Peter's, again appealed for a negotiated settlement in the Falklands crisis...
...President's package of and cuts, for instance, reflects his peculiarly static notion of equal opportunity, his Administration contends that the government's responsibility to defend everyone's right to attend college does not translate to a responsibility to pay for it. The evaporation of federal affirmative action codes thus represents not Administration confidence that private institutions will voluntarily seek diversity, as Rosovsky's report would suggest. Rather, it suggests a fundamentally flawed view of equality. In that version, rich and poor have equal education privileges--though the latter cannot pay-and white and Black have similarly equal rights...
...recurrence of an old ailment: during lift-off it lost several dozen heat-shielding tiles. As Columbia whirled 150 miles above the earth, still other things began to go wrong-two television cameras failed, the $1.2 million toilet clogged, a latch on the cargo-bay doors temporarily jammed, mysterious static rang in the astronauts' ears, and a teleprinter spilled paper wildly. The most serious failure came when gremlins knocked out some of the shuttle's radio links, briefly raising fears that there might be a premature halt to the mission...
...industry can lose 25% of its funds and continue to operate at the same level," he says. This means fewer funds to produce or import expensive programs like Brideshead Revisited, Life on Earth and the National Geographic special The Sharks-shows that have brought PBS fresh prestige, ec static reviews and record-breaking ratings. The pool of shows that will attract audiences (and potential subscribers) looks to be drying up just when PBS is be coming a habit for millions of new viewers. "Our audiences have never been greater, and our programs have never been better," claims Christensen...
Manager Peter Riley admits that D'Oyly Carte must modernize if it is to be revived, although any tinkering with tradition has always brought roars from the faithful. The "company's productions in recent years have seemed static, preserved in amber, cluttered with the gestures and mannerisms of venerated ghosts. There has been too much reverent looking backward to the epochal moment in 1875 when Richard D'Oyly Carte induced the highly successful playwright William Schwenck Gilbert to write the libretto that became...