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...tenured women faculty members, several departmental sources--both supporters and opponents of Skocpol--insisted the decision not to keep her had nothing to do with sex bias. Rather, those who opposed her did so because they disagreed with her comparative approach to the discipline and felt it would steer the department in a direction they did not want it to go. Sources also said that some opponents simply did not like Skocpol's "strong" personality...
...concludes Professor James Bill, an Iran specialist at the University of Texas, "but in the process he forgot the needs of his people. He insulated and isolated himself from them, and in the end failed to build the political institutions and social trust they needed." He steered his country into a revolution, only to find that, as it gathered force, his people decided that they would no longer allow him to steer his country anywhere...
Maybe. Dr. Joe has undoubtedly begun to steer the Argentine economy in the proper direction, and it could be approaching something of a boom era. But the Argentines have a long and discouraging tradition of social turmoil. There are still plenty of skeptics willing to bet that they will once again manage to turn immense potential and budding economic stability into politically induced poverty...
...film a newcomer named Bud (Travolta) meets both the mechanical steer and Sissy (Debra Winger, who gives the picture's best performance), his bride-to-be, soon after he arrives in town. Before long they are acting out a parody of western drama. Restless and feisty, she wants to become a bull rider too. Bud disapproves, just as he does of her flirtation with an ex-con named Wes (Scott Glenn, who looks tough enough for the part but does not act it). Wes is extraordinarily adept at staying on the bucking machine, and soon enough Sissy has moved...
...colonial times most missionaries tried to steer clear of direct politics, though it was Missionary David Livingstone who crusaded to close down the Arab slave trade in Zanzibar. But today Christian churches are deeply involved -partly because governments either attack them or need their help, partly because some missionaries are heavily radicalized and have rallied not only to preserve the right to worship but to protect black Africans from the new injustices visited on them by oppressive regimes, black and white...