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Williams said Scott's emphasis ondecentralization created a sense of "isolation"among Harvard's various schools and departmentsand caused workers to feel as though theUniversity was less one institution than adisjointed array of many different employers...
Reasonable words. But humanity's relationship to whales has never been bound by reason. Whales have always been too magnificent and mysterious to be seen as just another animal. They look like fish but suckle their young; they're intelligent, communicating with an eerie array of sounds; and, of course, all but the smallest are humblingly huge, the largest creatures to grace the earth since the demise of the dinosaurs...
Detective Webb Smith (Wesley Snipes), newly assigned to Japanese liaison duty, is teamed with an enigmatic veteran, John Conner (Sean Connery), who some say was forever unhinged by a long stay in Japan. The ensuing investigation is blocked by an array of law-thwarting tactics, including seduction, murder and high-tech video sabotage...
...arrests. "It was a judgment call that they might do something without telling us," said Charlie Parsons, special agent in charge of the FBI's Los Angeles field office. "These people are very unpredictable, and it's been like riding a bucking horse." Announcing the arrests, authorities displayed an array of racist paraphernalia and weaponry taken from the homes of the suspects: pipe bombs, machine guns, a Confederate flag, a Nazi flag and a framed portrait of Adolf Hitler...
...White House's plan establishes an array of reserves encompassing key watersheds and old-growth stands, an innovative strategy intended to protect the most ecologically essential areas of the forests and thereby preserve the habitat of spotted owls, salmon and countless other species. The blueprint allows for average annual timber harvests of 1.2 billion bd. ft. -- less than one-third of the mid-'80s peak of 5 billion bd. ft. a year. Administration projections put job losses at fewer than 10,000, not quite the apocalyptic vision of the timber companies. But neither the $1.2 billion for worker retraining...