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Lately, it seems everyone is talking about the anti-urban phenomenon. But farmers and people who live in the countryside have not done anything to warrant this powersurge in attention: their greatness has been thrust upon them by a nostalgic president and an eager media that senses an affecting American Values story in the Heartland...
...Divestment would be inconsistent because apartheid may be no worse than other systems of oppression, and countless immoral regimes could warrant comparable if impractical action. Singling out South Africa for divestment would be inconsistent, arbitrary, and opportunistic, undermining Harvard's global credibility and entangling it in a web of logical ramifications. Moreover, divestment would be inconsistent--even hypocritical--as long as Harvard and members of its community accept contributions, products, and employment from corporations with ties to South Africa...
Hagerman said, also, that the Ad Board has "no interest which is sufficiently compelling to warrant attempts at prior restraint of non-violent symbolic speech protected in the courts by the First Amendment...
...Reason: the lake was formed when a meteor slammed to the earth 360 million years ago, possibly fracturing the bedrock and allowing gas to percolate upward. Says William Staats, director of basic research at the Gas Research Institute in Chicago: "We believe that there is enough at stake to warrant our exploration...
...stickers that let him pass through the gates of the area's many Navy, Marine, Air Force and Army bases. Once he was inside, any papers he might have acquired and put into a briefcase or package were not likely to be checked. Moreover, as a former warrant officer, Walker could mix with Navy officers in their clubs as well as fraternize with enlisted men in their hangouts. The rank nicely bridges the Navy's class lines between noncoms and "gentlemen." Declared another private detective in Norfolk: "He couldn't have been better positioned...