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...Sociology represent basically different methodological approaches to different areas of social science--and each certainly has the right to question the legitimacy of the other. Social Studies is a problem-oriented cross-disciplinary approach to social questions, whereas sociology is a more quantitative discipline. If Social Studies did not exist, most concentrators would have chosen History and Literature or Government, and not Sociology, according to Head Tutor Judith Vichniac...
...Lithuanians have shown more political courage than political wisdom. Neither quality has been much in evidence from those members of the U.S. Congress who have called for formal recognition of a free Lithuania. Such a thing should and may someday exist, but it cannot be voted into existence by legislators in either Vilnius or Washington in defiance of Moscow. By applauding a morality play as though it were itself a happy ending, Congress is only increasing the chances that it will turn into a tragedy...
...issue of whether members do a lot of post-college networking or just a little is not at the center of the legal debate. The issue is whether actual business activity goes on on club property, and Schkolnick evidently concedes that it does not. The final clubs exist to fulfill young men's desires to drink, socialize with people like themselves and "socialize" with women. While the clubs are undoubtedly offensive, they are not centers of commerce...
...slipped deep into dozens of copies of three much discussed works that were selling well in Washington bookstores; anyone who found the notes (which presumably included anyone who read the books) was instructed to call for a $5 reward. After five months, no one had. "These books don't exist to be read," Kinsley later wrote. "They exist to be gazed at, browsed through, talked about." The Kinsley experiment's small sampling could lead to the conclusion, probably erroneous, that no books are actually read. Some surely are. But which ones and by how many...
...Vilnius State Conservatory, where Landsbergis used to lecture on the history of music. Landsbergis quickly gained a reputation as a shrewd strategist and within months emerged as Sajudis' chairman. "No one else has been so capable of forging a united position out of the multitude of positions that exist here," says member Eduardas Potasinskas...