Word: topical
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...agrees that his group was possibly the most qualified panel to consider the topic. "I think it was an appropriate vehicle by which presidents could come together and assert their common concern for the impact of college athletics on academic standards," he says...
...truer than any of L 'Engle's accounts of death, shame and estrangement. The sections shows that the author's strength is still her ability to make questions of good and evil seem human and dramatic: the unnecessary clutter of A Severed Wasp suggests that she has mistaken her topic, but not her theme...
...School faculty committee yesterday realfirmed the School's commitment to clinical education, a topic which has divided the Law faculty for four years...
...Committee's memorandum is the latest development in a debate over clinical education at the Law School dating back to 1979. Since the three faculty committees have researched the topic, most recently the Michelman Committee, which called on the Law School "to broaden its capacities for clinical instruction and research...
Israel's preoccupation with its domestic maelstrom has momentarily turned attention away from another topic that has been consuming the country's passions and energy: the ever growing rift between Jerusalem and Washington. U.S. Special Envoy Philip Habib discovered for himself last week just how absorbed Prime Minister Menachem Begin was in his own troubles. When the peripatetic troubleshooter showed up in Israel to discuss a new U.S. plan for the withdrawal of foreign troops from Lebanon, Begin found only 45 minutes for him. Said an Israeli official: "Nothing of substance came up at the meeting...