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...professors hoping to gain tenure somewhere or simply as community members concerned about the local school committee, the U.C. can be the source for future success in your field. Most of us are familiar with the frequently recycled 60 Minutes theme of the local activist who becomes disillusioned by unforeseen politics in "the system," and who eventually abandons his or her idealistic goals. The importance of being able to deal with politics simply cannot be underestimated...
...million, Iran-contra prosecutor Lawrence Walsh is calling it a day. He announced that after eight guilty pleas and convictions, he will present no more cases to the grand jury. Walsh still plans to prosecute former Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger and ex-CIA spy chief Clair George. But barring unforeseen evidence, the rest are off the hook...
...exodus is in large part an unforeseen result of a well-intentioned U.S. policy. After the September coup that ousted Jean-Bertrand Aristide, Haiti's first democratically elected President, the country plunged even more deeply into violence and deprivation. The suffering has been worsened by a U.S.-backed trade embargo by the Organization of American States designed to pressure the illegal government into restoring Aristide to power. Gasoline and fuel-oil supplies are scarce, and political repression against Aristide's supporters is fierce. More than 400,000 citizens have fled the capital of Port-au-Prince for the countryside. More...
America today is in the midst of an infertility epidemic, the unforeseen consequence of a variety of historical and socioeconomic trends. The advent of the Pill, the women's movement and an economy that pushes women into the workplace during their most fertile years have led many members of the baby- boom generation to wait so long to have children that they are in danger of waiting forever. This same generation was also party to the sexual revolution, and that too has taken a toll. With exposure to more sex partners came a sharp rise in sexually transmitted diseases...
...Sometimes, as though by a benign but unforeseen planetary conjunction, exhibitions in New York City will light one another up. So it is with the present retrospectives of two of the leading figures of Russian modernism: Kazimir Malevich (1878-1935) at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and Liubov Popova (1889-1924) at the Museum of Modern...