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Unfortunately, the uproar over this incident did virtually nothing to alter the institutional tendency to cover up health risks. One year later, the Environmental Health and Safety Committee is still off-limits to students. The only change is that Jewett says he has been "assured that if there are any problems we'll be notified." He believes that last year's water incident happened because the "environmental people just hadn't considered--as much as they might have--the necessity to inform the community...
Since the initial public uproar about the report, Singer has issued a memo reminding all faculty members that Kennedy School policy issues may not be discussed with members of the press without his permission. Although Singer says the memo is just a reminder of a policy that has long been in place, others say it was the committee's report that prompted the action...
CHICAGO LOOP by Paul Theroux (Random House; 196 pages; $20). With a lot more gore and a lot less talent, this novel could have shared some of the uproar that has descended on Bret Easton Ellis' American Psycho. Here is a wealthy, morally rudderless white male stalking through a city, in this case Chicago, looking for trouble. Parker Jagoda, a successful real estate developer, has a child in the northern suburb of Evanston and a sleek, sophisticated wife who works as a professional model and periodically arranges to meet him in hotels for ritualized bouts of fantasy sex. Still, Parker...
Spong's wildly offbeat convictions raise an intriguing question: Are there any limits to what an Episcopal leader may believe -- or disbelieve? His Paul- was-gay argument, based tenuously upon the Apostle's unmarried state and frequently mentioned sense of personal sin, is causing a growing uproar among traditionalists. But conservative Bishop William Frey, president of Pennsylvania's Trinity Episcopal School for Ministry, doubts any decisive stand will be taken by the church against his colleague's writings. "The House of Bishops has shown itself to be impotent in the face of challenges to the core beliefs of the church...
...proposal produced an uproar among liberal Deputies. Ukrainian journalist Alla Yaroshinskaya jumped up and shouted, "What is happening to our glasnost?" After heated debate, the Supreme Soviet eventually voted for a compromise, calling on the government and a parliamentary committee to work out "measures to ensure objectivity...