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Bush, who promised during last year's campaign to crack down on ethical laxness in government, arranged to lay out his recommendations in a speech at the American Society of Newspaper Editors convention...
Walsh's order calls on the police chief to prepare a report "to detail on what is being done to curtail this practice and what plan he can enact to crack down and bring to an end this violation...
Nonetheless, Kon is encouraged that things are changing a little. He finds that younger people are maturing earlier and learning more and that women's sexuality, which was previously denied, is starting to be acknowledged. At the same time, men's total authority is starting to crack. Kon even intends to have the word sexism added to the next edition of the Encyclopedia of Philosophy...
...wider perspective, the disaster points up the unresolved conflict between American desires for an unspoiled environment and demands for more energy that has long bedeviled national policy. Immediately the crack-up of the Exxon Valdez gives powerful new ammunition to environmentalists fighting against a proposal to allow oil exploration in Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, one of the last large tracts of U.S. wilderness virtually untouched by man. The proposal, which has the support of President Bush, has passed the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, but it may be delayed by the Prince William Sound disaster. Says Senator...
...desperate struggle to pay for our education. With the strong stand Harvard seems to be taking on other forms of discrimination (for example, discrimination against minorities, women and homosexuals), it is extremely disturbing to find myself as fair and even designated game for anyone wishing to take a crack at the establishment. If a full professor, such as [Dillon Professor of the Civilization of France, Emeritus] Laurence Wylie, is allowed to make such derogatory generalizations about a whole sector of the student body, what is to keep other members of the faculty and the student body from discriminating based...