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...free exchange of ideas, however provocative or unfashionable. Many professors charge that the bans invite misinterpretation and self- censorship. Last May, for example, a Brown art professor canceled a screening of The Birth of a Nation, the D.W. Griffith classic about the Ku Klux Klan, because the local chapter of the N.A.A.C.P. opposed...
...retail match made in heaven suddenly crashed to earth last week. Ames Department Stores (fiscal 1989 sales: $3.4 billion) declared bankruptcy under Chapter 11 as the result of lingering complications from its 1988 acquisition of the Zayre chain. Before the merger, the Connecticut-based Ames had been a thriving retailer renowned for its management acuity. When the company bought the 392-store Zayre chain for $800 million, Ames closed many unsuccessful outlets and introduced more national brands. But Zayre's patrons, who were used to periodic deep markdowns, disliked the new Ames policy of everyday low prices. Customer loyalty...
...country by magic, talking lengthily about the follies of mortals in passages that are as cute and irritating as you would expect. Satire is intended, but the jawboning has no bite. The viewpoint Robbins is searching for seems to have chewed through its leash and wandered off well before Chapter...
...R.S.V. drew upon the hundreds of ancient Bible manuscripts that have become available since the earlier version appeared. Four sentences based upon one of the Dead Sea Scrolls have been tacked onto Chapter 10 of I Samuel, for instance, and Greek manuscripts provided an optional short ending for Mark. But such substantive changes are surprisingly few, indicating, says Metzger, how reliable the biblical texts were all along...
...course we should establish relations," says Rob Pfeiffer, a high school counselor in Oakland, Me. "We're pretending Vietnam just doesn't exist." An official in the Maine chapter of Veterans for Peace, Pfeiffer says his fellow members support recognition as a means to gain more on-site information about the effects of Agent Orange. "Open it up," says McClellan. "If we established relations with China, why not with Vietnam?" Former antiwar activist Anne Weills, who created a furor in 1968 when she went to Hanoi with a delegation that brought back three American prisoners, comes to the same conclusion...