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...blistering attack on the record of the Nicaraguan regime by the International League for Human Rights was based in part on a weeklong fact- finding trip to Nicaragua in February led by Patricia Derian, former President Jimmy Carter's human rights chief. It catalogs dozens of Nicaraguan violations, including torture, denial of due process to thousands of political detainees, and refusal to allow labor unions to strike or engage in collective bargaining. "The recent actions of the government to expel two Roman Catholic priests and the closing down of the newspaper La Prensa are not new," concedes Nina Shea...
From the viewpoint of a Harvard Square merchant, Commencement week means extra personnel, shelves of sweatshirts and hordes of people, all of which combine to make this weeklong bonanza one of the year's most lucrative seasons...
...educators save their special scorn for such programs as Suzuki, a music-teaching method that sets two- and three-year-olds to performing on the violin and other instruments, or the Better Baby Institute in Philadelphia, which offers parents a weeklong course called How to Multiply Your Baby's Intelligence so that the toddler can achieve "encyclopedic knowledge." A & common upshot of such regimens, say critics, is robot virtuosity with little understanding and no lasting gain. The most reliable head start parents can provide, asserts T. Berry Brazelton, professor of pediatrics at the Harvard Medical School, in his 1985 book...
...show, seen in 169 cities, beats Swaggart in some audience listings. Schuller's TV budget is $37 million a year, and the 10,000-member cathedral spends an additional $5.7 million on non-TV operations. The author of several inspirational best sellers, Schuller shook 10,000 hands in a weeklong January tour promoting his latest volume, an upbeat rewrite of Jesus' Beatitudes titled The Be-Happy Attitudes. Schuller is affiliated with the mainline Reformed Church in America, as is his predecessor in hyperoptimism, Norman Vincent Peale...
...weeklong event is Co-sponsored by the Nation Institute, an affiliate of The Nation Magazine, and the New York based Institute for Policy Studies. Through debates of timely issues such as the Star Wars defense system, the conference is designed as a "working session for the leaders of the peace movement," said Emily Sack, director of the Nation Institute...