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...responsibility, and he seized the opportunity to deny that his government had been involved in any recent airplane hijackings. Declared Khomeini: "How could we support something that is against world feelings, against Islam and against reason?" He added ominously that "serious measures should be taken in order to stop unsound statements on the national radio that defame Iran...
When the run on the bank started in May, sparked by rumors that Continental was unsound and was about to be sold to three Japanese financial institutions, the FDIC, the Federal Reserve and dozens of banks began supplying billions in funds in an effort to stop the panic. A package of more than $10 billion in loans was offered, but it was only the FDlC's pledge to protect all deposits, no matter how big, that halted the outflow of funds...
With the present shortage of government research funds, much unsound or unproductive research will inevitably be weeded out by peer review groups. Yet the protests will not cease until scientists have learned to deal openly and directly with animal protection groups. Certainly some extremist protestors will continue to ignore the facts that some repetition of experiments on animals must be done to maintain scientific integrity, and that much research simply cannot be replaced by working with computer models. But most animal care protestors will find that their feelings of empathy exist in researchers as well, and will be able...
...their February 3 letter, Ph.D. students Tim Reagan and Kim Schive took The Crimson to task for its usage of "doctor/rapist." Admittedly, this is a semantically unsound phrase; however, do Reagan and Schive believe for one moment that any of The Crimson's readers misunderstood the headline ("Judge Decides Not to Deport Former Harvard Doctor/Rapist") because of the slash? More likely they were looking for an opportunity to see their prose in print. Rape is a serious crime. That two Harvard Ph.D. candidates overlook this fact to have fun at a newspaper's expense--and at the expense of rape...
Major donors to the Fogg's on-going fund drive and members of the Fine Arts faculty said that Bok's decision was based on unsound economic reasoning, overly cautious planning, and an underestimation of the Fogg's significance within the University and in the museum world...