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This "father-knows-best" attitude, critics say, is most evident in Bok's stubborn refusal to grant professorial status to any scholar he feels is unsuitable, even when the candidate is strongly supported by students and colleagues...
...often mired in poverty. South Korean immigrants now own 2,500 of the more than 3,000 fruit and vegetable stores in the New York City area. Blacks often resent the newcomers' ability to garner profits from their community. Differences in class and culture as well as stubborn myths have led to conflict...
...groups have grabbed headlines by pouring sand in the fuel tanks of logging machinery and destroying oil-exploration gear. But it is law- abiding citizens, stung by a threat to their livelihood, their recreation or their family's health, who are giving the nation's environmental movement its daily, stubborn edge. In Kansas two years ago, a housewife who lived near Wichita's Vulcan Chemical plant and whose family had been beset with health problems handcuffed herself to a chair outside Governor Mike Hayden's office until she could see him. Last year a Louisiana group brought cancer-stricken children...
...oppressed peoples have experienced the Exodus in their own way. Here Pharoah's state is a colonial regime, there a domestic system of legalized injustice; here Moses is a leader who speaks with God, there a representative assembly that speaks for the people. Everywhere, the people are hopeful and stubborn, downtrodden and then ennobled...
...requirements. "In politics you can't be the master of the game," he says. "You must create consensus, have great flexibility, accept criticism. Not in literature. When you write a novel, you should be very intolerant, very intractable about the goals that you have set." His critics say this stubborn streak has kept the author from building the alliances, particularly with leftist groups, that he needs to govern Peru effectively. Instead, they say, he relies on advice from a small cadre of confidants that includes his wife Patricia, 43. "He is very alone out there," says Hernando de Soto...