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February, 1986. NBA commissioner David Stern announces that three-time All-Star Michael Ray Richardson is banned from playing in the NBA for at least two years. Richardson admits to having a cocaine problem despite twice going through the league-sanctioned drug rehabilitation center...
...Dartmouth administration's initial response to the construction of the shanties was swift and seemingly stern. After the Town of Hanover declared the unsightly structures a violation of town ordinances, Dartmouth Dean Edward Shanahan asked the protesters on November 17 "to remove the shanties from the Green today. If you do not, it will be necessary for the college to remove the structures...
Despite the chilling effect of law and custom, liberal ideas and practices surface and are customarily blamed on the West. To many Chinese, Westerners seem enslaved by their animal instincts and unconcerned about family unity. Still, more open attitudes seem to continue. The usually stern Shanghai Liberation Daily raised eyebrows last summer with an evenhanded treatment of the loss of virginity, calling it "not a good thing, but it is not necessarily an irredeemably bad thing." And like other countries, China is learning that courses and books aimed at keeping the lid on sexual activity help feed it. Young women...
Last week Sheik Ahmed Zaki Yamani, the Saudi oil minister, issued a stern warning. Without a new agreement to curb production, Yamani said, "there will be no limitation to the downward spiral that may bring crude prices to less than $15 per bbl., with adverse and dangerous consequences for the whole world economy." The threatening words pushed prices into a free fall. North Sea oil dropped to $17.70 per bbl. before recovering a bit to finish the week...
...plodding bureaucrat whose soft drone is regularly drowned out by the assertive tones of his rivals. Another is a different kind of Milquetoast, one who talks tough but is steering American policy away from stern anti-Sovietism back toward wishy-washy detente. A third is no Milquetoast at all, but a policymaker who has so thoroughly won the trust of his chief that he speaks with an authority exceeded only by that of President Reagan...