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However, another section of the new ordinanceprohibiting performances altogether in one stretchof the Square has evoked vehement criticism. Underthe new law, performances are forbidden alongBrattle St., from Church St. to just past theAmerican Repertory Theatre...
Most recently, the Idaho state legislature passed what would have been the most restrictive anti-abortion legislation in the 50 states. Following vehement objections from abortion rights activists nationwide, however, Gov. Cecil Andrus vetoed the bill...
...Kroc triple play made possible San Diego's recent Soviet Arts Festival. The mayor first dreamed up the idea of a big 22-event festival with a flashy Faberge show couched among operas and ballets. But it took the money and clout of her two friends to surmount vehement opposition to it. Copley and Kroc covered half the festival's budgeted cost by anteing up $500,000 and $1 million respectively. Then Copley's opinion-making dailies swung behind it. To clinch the deal, Kroc kicked in with a $2.8 million Faberge egg she had bought at auction...
Many Europeans are apprehensive about reassembling a Germany of 77 million people in the center of the Continent. The Soviets, who estimate they lost 26 million people in their Great Patriotic War against the Nazis, have been the most vehement. If they were able, the Soviets would prevent unification altogether. That is impossible in view of Gorbachev's myriad problems, so they have tried to slow the process and attach conditions. When the "four" join the negotiations of the "two" in a few weeks, Moscow is expected to continue to argue for neutralization...
...consider the issue of minority faculty. Harvard protestors have been vehement in their call for more minority faculty, and savage in their attacks on the administration for not hiring minority faculty left and right. But they never bring up the fundamental issue: few minorities enter academia, so there are few minority scholars out there for Harvard to hire. The PC have limited the issue to one side: more minority faculty hiring. The rest is moot. PC causes suffer because of PC narrowmindedness...