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...Schlafly was studying in Cambridge, Harvard was still a bastion of conservatism: students at this school favored Dewey in 1948 and voted against FDR four times. The school has moved sharply to the left in the past 40 years, however. Schlafly says Harvard's professors are now out of step with the nation. "There are so many liberals. They have stacked up the faculty with liberals and it's very difficult for a little clique," Schlafly said in an interview last week...
Universal Pictures had anticipated controversy. Paramount, originally set to produce the movie in 1983, backed out just weeks before the cameras were to roll. To head off a storm, Universal took the unusual step last January of hiring Penland to calm down the religious right. But Penland resigned in June, charging that Universal had reneged on a promise to let conservative religious leaders see the film and comment on it well in advance of its release...
...novel, in fact, the only significant things that have happened are that Adam's mother has come to visit, he has been stabbed, in the middle of masturbating, by Christopher's mother who returns in the middle of the night to reclaim her son, and Christopher takes a step at the end of the novel. We know that Adam will continue in San Francisco for at least the rest of the year. But the rest is uncertain...
Gorbachev took a step toward streamlining the military last December, when he and President Reagan agreed to scrap all medium- and shorter-range nuclear missiles. The Soviet leader makes no secret of his hopes that continuing strategic arms talks and conventional-weapo ns negotiations will reduce the defense burden. To decrease East-West tensions further, Moscow and Washington have embarked on a series of unprecedented exchanges between their military leaders. Last month Marshal Sergei Akhromeyev, the Soviet Chief of Staff, peered into the cockpit of a B-1B bomber and visited the nuclear-powered aircraft carrier Theodore Roosevelt during...
Nomura took a giant step toward realizing that goal last week, stunning Wall Street with a move to become a major player in the U.S. mergers-and- acquisitions game. The company said it was paying $100 million for 20% of the hot, new Manhattan investment firm started six months ago by Bruce Wasserstein and Joseph Perella, the Wall Street wizards who built First Boston's merger department into one of the best in the business and then left to strike out on their...