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...that we've all heard from the Black Congressional Caucus, the N.A.A.C.P., Norman Lear, et al, I think it only fair that you listen to one of the writers and creators of the canceled Mister Dugan [March...
...conclusion, Auletta ridicules Mayor Edward I. Koch's vision of a renaissance in the city. He feels that Koch has been as promiscuous with city funds as his predecessors; and that the mayor has not yet confronted the issues--growing debt and budget, shrinking tax base, et al.--that will determine whether the city lives or dies. On Koch's efforts, Auletta quotes the Wizard of Oz's excuse to Dorothy: "I'm really a very good man, but I'm a very bad wizard...
...would just like to extend a heart-felt word of thanks to Professors Walzer, Nolan, Cudjoe, Skocpol, Higonnet, et al. for their eloquent and principled stands at Tuesday's Faculty meeting. I have spent nearly four years at Harvard becoming ever-more discouraged by the University's perpetual abdication of political and moral responsibility in its affairs, from its derisive treatment of the Afro-American Department to its equally disreputable labor relations with its own workers. President Bok's letter struck me as the crowning blow of morally-myopic ivory-towerism...
...Peter's, John Paul delivered a 5,000-word speech that may mark the entire course of his papacy. The text was designed to strip away any ambiguity over future papal social policy. From Leo XIII's Rerum Novarum (1891) to John XXIII's Mater et Magistra (1961), papal encyclicals have rejected both the "unregulated competition" of laissez-faire capitalism and Marxism's class struggle with its elimination of private property. However, in his 1967 encyclical Populorum Progressio, Paul VI allowed for revolutions in extreme cases and thus left the door open to liberation theology...
...Ides of March finally arrive for him, Director Herbert Wise has the conspirators slowly circle around him, like snarling dogs around a tired stag. It is a shockingly intense scene and, as he is struck by Brutus, his favorite, Caesar clutches and almost kisses him, uttering a scarcely audible "Et tu, Brute...