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David Karen, graduate student coordinator of the Sociology Department, said yesterday the task force hopes to organize students and confront the department's decision to enforce deadlines...
...works indirectly, publicizing the issues, hoping to trigger an impulse to organize from within. Once a woman has taken the step of contacting 9to5, the staff offers free legal counseling and will help her plan strategy. Usually they look into employment practices throughout her particular industry in Boston, then confront management--and, if necessary, bring legal proceedings against the company. Or they may call for public hearings and pressure government agencies to enforce anti-discrimination laws and affirmative action requirements...
...represent a way out of our Western spiritual crises. But they do help us to understand it much better, in part because they embody it so clearly and often so attractively. In doing so they help us to understand and confront that part of ourselves which would like to abdicate history-making and let nature take its course...
...host of issues confront a President who has yet to get his job in focus...
...Maoist chic along Fifth Avenue in the early '70s, the art of the People's Republic of China has never been properly exhibited in an American museum. Doubtless there is some ideological reluctance. Though the cold war is formally over, not too many U.S. museum directors are ready to confront their more conservative trustees with large comic-strip gouaches bearing titles like Occupying the Ideological-Cultural Field in the Countryside and Workers Condemn the "Gang of Four...