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...airline industry, however, Associate Editor Charles Alexander decided to do things differently. "I usually write about abstract things like economic policy," he says. "My previous cover story was on the budget deficit, and I got buried under statistical reports. This one was a change of pace, a consumer-oriented subject. It made sense to take a firsthand look...
...teach without opinions?" But should those opinions be taught as established facts? I tell my students that my personal opinions are irrelevant and will, I hope, remain unknown to them. Although I am more educated than they, I am not necessarily more intelligent. Thus I ought to teach the subject matter and let them form their own opinions. Henry N. Bousquet Clinton, Conn. Unmanly Tears...
...Another subject that raises questions is U.S. air-traffic controllers. "We're on the border in air-traffic control," says Russell Ray Jr., president of San Diego-based Pacific Southwest Airlines (P.S.A.). "It's getting close." Some 14,000 controllers now direct U.S. air travel, down 13% from the size of the work force just before President Reagan fired strikers in 1981. Of those now employed, only 57% are considered fully qualified, as compared with 82% who held that rating before the strike. One possible result: the number of near misses between aircraft reached a record...
...Proponents of the screening point out that the film raises important journalistic issues and that the group has sponsored showings of other movies, like Absence of Malice, with views it did not necessarily endorse. HBO meanwhile staunchly defends the movie. "The people at CBS are too close to the subject," says HBO President Michael Fuchs. "We made Murrow for our audience and not for CBS News...
...well with some of his academic colleagues. They point out that over the past two decades Harvard, Berkeley and a host of other schools, wary of Government influence but still eager for federal research grants, have set up policies to ensure that no research is secret or subject to prior review. Now the Safran incident has resurrected the thorny question of whose research money is clean and whose is not. One of the Harvard center's defrocked committeemen, Richard N. Frye, denounced the Spence report as a "whitewash" that ignored the broad effect on scholarly integrity. An academic who bowed...