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...uproar stems from a basic philosophical disagreement between McCaffrey, who has pursued hard-line measures as Drug Czar, and many of the physicians affiliated with the center who advocate more liberal measures such as legalization of medical marijuana and needle exchanges...
...Nicholson's two attorneys, Jonathan Shapiro and Liam O'Grady, say their client will fight them vigorously--then Nicholson would have been either a very cool customer or a weirdly reckless one; maybe both. He allegedly went to work for the Russians just as the CIA was in an uproar over Ames, the most important mole ever discovered within the agency. On the basis of information Ames provided over almost nine years of betrayal, Moscow executed at least 10 Soviets working secretly for American intelligence. Anger and embarrassment led the agency to swear it would never happen again. Two months...
...uproar now, when the suit had been pending for more than two years? Well, a few weeks ago, the government and the public discovered that one senior executive had tape-recorded a meeting. On the tape, the senior executives of Texaco made racially disparaging comments and admitted that they promoted only white employees into the highest ranks. They also discussed shredding documents containing the secret evaluations based on race which were demanded in the case, a point the Justice Department will deal with later...
...thing I pray we all learned from the recent Peninsula uproar is that no matter how frightening or wrongheaded we considered Christopher Griffith's article to be, we never doubted his right to write it. Let us fight this, not for Mr. Kirtley, for us, students with voices, students who will be heard. --Sozi T. Sozinho...
Controversies, while rare, reflect Harvard's idiosyncrasies. In the mid-1980s, the installation of cable TV generated an uproar because some residents feared the negative impact of shows with racy, sexually explicit images. Even today, Petrin says, "we don't have a high penetration for cable...