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...official ties" with the final clubs in 1984. Such "harsh" measures included cutting off the clubs' Centrex and heating services. Yet their can be no doubt that the University has not exhausted its options as it has claimed. It does nothing to deter professors from dining there and, worst of all, says nothing about students' conspicuous membership in a discriminating institution...
...Five years from now, we will definitely have the worst drinking water in the surrounding area if we don't do something now," said Barrett...
...short-term visas. Tehran-backed groups have a history of violent mischief in London, mostly bombings aimed at Iranian dissidents. Says Ian Geldard, head of research at London's Institute for the Study of Terrorism: "In the Islamic world, a call from the Imam is a full command . . . The worst of it is that this threat could remain in effect for months." Or even years. In a BBC radio interview, an exiled Iranian film director, Reza Fazeli, who himself has been the target of a Khomeini death threat and whose son was killed in a 1986 terrorist attack in London...
...much room for improvement. In a 1985 survey by the American Society of Newspaper Editors, more than 78% of the people questioned believed the press does not "worry much about hurting people." Almost two-thirds of the respondents agreed that journalists take advantage of victims of circumstance. Perhaps the worst transgressor is the TV camera operator who zooms in on the face of a dead person's relative -- and stays there as the face dissolves in grief. Says Anne Seymour, public affairs director for the National Victim Center in Fort Worth: "Any time there is a yellow line, some journalists...
...characters. But in the eyes of believers, both historical and religious truth have come under an unprecedented assault. Their reaction is especially harsh because Rushdie was raised a Muslim. Says Professor Georges Sabagh, director of the center for Near Eastern studies at UCLA: "He's engaged in the worst kind of blasphemy. He's a renegade, an apostate...