Word: wrongheadedness
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Harvard has consistently tried to bust unions. The University has spent millions over the last 12 years to defeat efforts by clerical and technical workers to organize into a union, repeatedly litigating election petitions before the NLRB for nine years. In 1982 the personnel office at the Medical School was...
Perhaps the most telling opposition to A.I.A. has come from a quarter in which it might have been expected to win support: namely, the political right. After the conference, Secretary of Education William Bennett denounced A.I.A. as "a bad idea." And last week Midge Decter, executive director of the conservative...
Sometimes the experiments achieve their goal of revitalizing familiar works; other times they are merely self-indulgent displays of temperament. But, win or lose, the director as hero has emerged as the most powerful force in the theater today. At the Olympic Arts Festival in Los Angeles this month, two...
THE CENTRAL thesis that we must stop pushing birth control and permanent fertility on Third World populations is a problematic one. Greer has provided ample documented evidence that all too often governments force people to undergo operations against their will, and that even in the United States some women are...
That charge is not only unfair-it misses the point that there are substantially more legitimate doubts about the wisdom of this policy in particular and about the President's approach to complicated national security issues in general. Reagan has often been drawn instinctively to simplistic, gimmicky solutions to...