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...penalty (his crime: a thunderous check from behind on a Clarkson player into the boards), the shorthanded unit was in the process of clearing out a loose puck in the middle of its defensive zone. Out of the blue, Clarkson sniper Todd White lunged through the crowd of players, swung around to his right and blindly swept the puck past a screened Tracy...
...analogy depends, of course, on accepting the proposition that TV has a harmful effect on young viewers. Researchers have been sparring over that question for years, but the debate seems to have swung in favor of the antiviolence forces. The study released last week did no original research on the effect TV violence has on children's behavior. But it summarized a growing body of research and concluded that the link between TV violence and aggressive behavior is no longer in doubt...
That seemed to be the consensus among almost 2,000 participants as they swung into action at the Harvard National Model United Nations at the Park Plaza Hotel in Boston yesterday...
...pendulum swung the other way again in the 1920s, when William Foxwell Albright appeared on the scene. A professor of Semitic languages at Johns Hopkins and the son of a Methodist missionary, he took a much more scientific approach than most of his predecessors. Rather than assume that the Bible was either entirely accurate or completely fictional, he attempted to confirm Old Testament stories with independent archaeological evidence. And under his considerable influence, biblical archaeology finally became a disciplined and scientific enterprise...
...embrace when their colleagues are guilty of excess. Above all, it is Clinton who needs to say what we all know--that minority Americans are too often the victims of police misconduct and that the misuse of public power diminishes everyone, not only those against whom the nightsticks are swung. The President claims to have recently rediscovered the bully pulpit. He should use it now, when it is most needed...