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Most Disconcerting Academic Inquiry Stanford University researchers discovered that Martin Luther King Jr. had borrowed heavily from other works without giving credit while preparing a doctoral dissertation in the mid- 1950s. After much angst, they called it plagiarism...
...even questions of fairness are dwarfed by the angst that will attend the truly invasive societal changes contemplated for New Kuwait. If there is a consensus among Kuwaitis about anything, it is this: despite its vast wealth, Kuwait's society was sick, and not merely because of democratic failings or the poor treatment of expatriates. "At bottom," says Hasan al-Ebraheem, the former Education Minister, "much was rotted...
...antiapartheid movement has taken note of Afrikaner angst, but is not necessarily impressed. "No one in a high position has actually said they are sorry for all the hurt they have caused to victims of apartheid," says Anglican Archbishop Desmond Tutu. "We blacks, for our part, are ready to forgive. But the other party must be contrite and ready to do reparation. Your contrition will be demonstrated by your willingness to make amends. We cannot just say, 'Let bygones be bygones...
Adding to Fox's holiday angst are nagging uncertainties about the underlying concept of the upcoming holiday. "I just don't understand this Thanksgiving," Fox said. In Ireland, he explained, "we drink twice as much and eat twice as much turkey at Christmas...
Getting into college will completely change. Stanley Kaplan will probably go out of business. High school angst will have to be totally re-oriented. Scan-tron may never recover...