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...Note to The Perspective: Harvard's most respected--and only--liberal monthly made a valiant attempt at some humor of their own in this month's issue. They even took the opportunity to get in some jibes at Cambridge's only breakfast-table daily. But in the Perspective's "calendar" of events to come this spring, they failed to get the joke quite right. They predicted that The Crimson would change its official form "freshperson" to "freshper-offspring." What they failed to note, however, is The Crimson's official/unofficial term for first-year students: freshperchild...
...high bench refused to strip sexually oriented businesses of important constitutional protections. By a 6-to-3 vote, the court struck down the licensing portion of a 1986 city ordinance that strictly regulated adult bookstores and movie houses through zoning, licensing and inspection requirements. While endorsing the law's attempt to root out the urban blight and crime associated with such enterprises, the court concluded that the licensing scheme amounted to an unconstitutional "prior restraint" on speech because it did not impose a time limit for acting on applications and did not provide for prompt judicial review. However, the court...
Civil rights advocates were dismayed at the decision, which they saw as another attempt to water down legal remedies against inequality. "This case may encourage unwarranted defiance of judicial authority in civil rights matters," observed Harvard University law professor Laurence Tribe. Added ) Cornell University law professor Steven Shiffrin: "There is no place for deference to the legislative process when it does not act in good faith." But Peter Chema, one of the targeted Yonkers council members, was jubilant. "This is a democracy," he declared, "and an elected official's vote is sacred...
...business front, Turner's turnaround has been impressive. After his abortive 1985 attempt to take over CBS and his costly acquisition of MGM's library of 3,300 old films, Turner appeared to be in financial trouble. In desperate need of cash, he turned for a bailout to a group of cable-owning companies (among them Time Inc.), which bought a large share of Turner Broadcasting. His stake in the company has been reduced from 80% of common stock to just over 40%, and for the first time he must get approval for major decisions from a board of directors...
...racial animosity. They also became an easy peg for a recurrent moral tale pitting good against evil that is guaranteed to generate tears, confirm stereotypes and, most important, get readers to turn the page. Such allegories are generally passed off as a search for deeper meaning or an attempt to humanize the injured party. Yet the images are so shopworn and predictable that they in fact dehumanize. And the ostensible larger meaning is patently obvious: here lies another life that could have contributed much to society had it not been crushed by those who deserved to die instead...