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...even less Hollywood-like vein, funds for the project had already been obtained by the National Council of La Raza from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. The Council had funds to produce "something which would counteract the negative portrayal of Hispanics on television and in film," said project coordinator Guadalupe Saavedra. But in order to insure universal appeal. Saavedra continues. "We had to resist the temptation to exploit the good versus bad. Anglo versus Mexican aspects of the story...
Salafsky said that he has not heard any criticism about the prank. He added that he hopes everyone mentioned in the fake test, including instructors William A. Klemperer, Erving Professor of Chemistry and Veronica Vaida, Associate Professor of Chemistry, "take the projects in the humorous vein in which it was intended...
...government of Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini left no doubt of how it views the new development. "The Persian Gulfs jugular vein is in our hands," declared Iranian state radio. "Should an attempt be made to use the planes to damage Iran's vital resources, Iran would turn the Strait of Hormuz into a quagmire for the West's imperial objectives." Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, Speaker of the Iranian parliament, put it more chillingly. If Tehran bottles up the gulf, he warned, "the West will have a very cold winter...
...line, but ignores the interests of most of the community. Schools need broader organizations linking the support and input of business leaders, civic activists, school alumni, and neighborhood residents. Here, as elsewhere, public educators can learn from private schools that have traditionally mastered the art of tapping every potential vein of support, financial and otherwise. The importance of this link for public schools intensifies as a growing proportion of an ever-graying population loses parental ties to the schools. Already the cries are heard in South Florida and other retirement intensive areas: "We have no kids in school, why should...
...truth to offer about the Midwest in the '30s than Margaret Bourke-White's camera, but there are no photographs of Eden. This show allows us to see what Wood's assets were: mainly, the deep lyricism rising from his certainty that he had discovered a vein of imagery no other painter had mined...