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Nevertheless, the Steiner appointment raises serious questions. In his 12 years as Harvard's general counsel, Steiner has developed a reputation as a crack administrator--the Massachusetts Hall official whom Bok often relies on to do his dirty work. Whether it was diluting labor unions' organizing drives or quelling student demonstrations, Steiner was there as Harvard's chief troubleshooter...
...with delicacy, the ability of the printed word to wreak havoc in people's lives, the need for social restraints to balance writers' unassailable freedom to publish whatever they want. It's rare, however, that the book industry faces such a conundrum, and rarer still that authorities try to crack down on book publishers. Freedom-of-the-press buffs, then, will do well to watch closely as a French publishing house and two Parisian author-journalists grapple the moral questions surrounding their publication of a how-to manual on committing suicide...
...players openly opposed the union in the strike's first days, but a few went along grumbling. "Austria is neutral," said New Orleans Place Kicker Toni Fritsch, an Austrian. New Orleans Player Representative Russell Erxleben polled his membership about dropping the wage-scale demand, perhaps a small crack in solidarity. Though negotiators were finally promising to meet over the past weekend, the players were not heartened by the news that the owners were assured of two weeks' TV money, to be repaid to the networks next season. be repaid to the networks next season...
...percent of those eligible, had registered for the draft. While claiming that figure showed high compliance, officials acknowledged that a still higher portion would have to sign up for the system to be equitable, and for routine enforcement to be feasible. So the federal government began to crack down...
...defies explication. At first it seems that in the person of Calvin Cohn, the author has in mind a latter-day Noah. Adrift in a boat Cohn is the only human survivor of the "Second Flood" that follows a nuclear war between the "Djanks" and "Druzhkies." Speaking from a crack in the sky, God addresses Cohn: "That you went on living, Mr. Cohn, I regret to say, was no more than a marginal error. . . Therefore live quickly-a few deep breaths and go your way. Beyond that lies nothing...