Word: wings
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...overriding importance of freedom of expression," about which "there can be no compromise." (And the students involved face university punishment for their actions.) But merely for suggesting that the feelings of minority students are a concern at all in a diverse academic community, Hackney violated the rules of right-wing political correctness. He didn't get the mantra exactly right...
...reductio ad absurdum of right-wing p.c. may be the opposition to Tara J. O'Toole, Clinton's nominee for Assistant Secretary of Energy. O'Toole's nomination has been held up by two Republican Senators because -- and follow this closely, please -- she belongs to a study group that once had the name Marxist Feminist Group. The group, which meets about three times a year, changed its name to Northeast Feminist Scholars years before O'Toole joined it. The Administration wrote the Senate that O'Toole "has never endorsed Marxist theory, nor has she ever had the impression that...
Because public television is blandly virtuous and soaks up smallish sums of tax money, almost no one but right-wing ideologues has ventured full-bore critiques. A 25th-anniversary report, put out last week by a task force of the usual Establishment suspects (Vartan Gregorian, Joe Califano, Tim Wirth and so on), provoked intriguing newspaper headlines (OVERHAUL PROPOSED, teased the Washington Post), but its reformist manifesto -- the 351 local PBS stations should get less federal money, the central programming apparatus should get more -- turned out to be tepid and intramural, a birthday wish list posing as tough-minded scrutiny...
BUSINESS: On a Wing and a Prayer...
...sport would send pilots not experienced enough to handle the valley's big air. As things turned out, two expert members of the top-ranked British team were tumbled upside down in separate incidents. When this happens, the pilot, who in normal flight dangles below the wing, can fall into the glider's underside and break the delicate structure of tubing and wires. The magical flying contraption instantly becomes wreckage, and the pilot has to deploy his emergency parachute. So it went for the two Brits, each of whom survived with minor injuries...