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...cash flow and synergy and the global marketplace. But for all the theories, even deals this logical depend for their fuel on the dreams and grudges and high octane of a very few, very powerful men who are too rich to be doing it for the money and too vain to admit to motives more complex than the desire to serve their shareholders. And so last week, following the second biggest takeover of all time, there was a story to tell about the ever more ferocious fight among media giants trying to wire the world and in particular about...
...fact, the Southern Baptists had plenty of chances to reverse their backward stand on racial issues but passed them by, even though many courageous members of the church and some maverick pastors protested in vain against the policies. In his famous "Letter from Birmingham City Jail" in 1963, Martin Luther King Jr. responded to a group of "liberal" Southern church leaders who had criticized his nonviolent demonstrations as "unwise and untimely" acts of outside agitation. Wrote King: "In the midst of blatant injustices inflicted upon the Negro, I have watched white churches stand on the sidelines and merely mouth pious...
...with the current mind-set of many Republicans in Washington, the University's efforts could be in vain and many say that Harvard will have to get used to its declining influence inside the Beltway...
...follow through on its commitments in Bosnia. Maybe so, but as Thompson notes: "Clinton so far has not made the case that this passes the 'mother test,' that is, he can't go to the mother of some Marine and tell her her son did not die in vain...
...opinion. But the students know the stakes. Over 1000 of them have signed a petition protesting total randomization; over 200 have rallied in front of University Hall to demonstrate their outrage. The students resent the fact that the decision was announced at the beginning of finals period, in the (vain) hope of avoiding protest. When two separate polls indicate that more than 80 percent of students oppose randomization, the administration's actions can only be called cynical and cowardly...