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...SENSE, the new proposals, adopted by the NCAA, mild as they are, signal a new day for college athletics. Yet, in another sense, these reforms are a sad commentary on a tarnished system for being to obvious and so late in coming. They were so obvious to President Bok that he didn't even bother going, sending Dean of the College John B. Fox Jr. '59 and Director of Athletics John P. Reardon '60 to act as "yes-men" for all the proposed changes...
...company's latest product introductions also seem to have been timed poorly. In February IBM unveiled its Sierra line, a family of mainframe computers to be delivered this fall. The announcement sharply curtailed sales of existing systems as prospective buyers waited for the new machines. IBM expected only a mild slowdown in such business...
...smoldering quarrel between the Fundamentalists and moderates intensified in 1969, when the S.B.C. Sunday School Board began issuing serially the multivolume Broadman Bible Commentary. The project was established to summarize Southern Baptist thinking. The 56 theologians involved made mild use of "higher criticism" (theorizing about literary sources underlying Bible texts), and the introduction to the series undermined the concept of inerrancy. In 1970 the annual convention forced a rewrite of the program's Genesis commentary to make it more conservative...
...this process. It presumes discontinuity. It is not a gesture of homage to an esteemed original. In fact it does not agree that any image has more authority than any other. It is a response to a culture of reproduction. Its posture is a melange of acquiescence and mild pessimism: acquiescence in the thick smog of images now dumped on the eye by "high" and "low" culture alike, pessimism about painting's ability to pierce or dispel it with authentically rooted meanings...
Since he sold the first machine in 1970, Jones has manufactured some 400,000 of the devices. The company he owns, Nautilus Sports/Medical Industries (estimated 1984 sales: $300 million), has become the leading U.S. maker of exercise equipment. Jones, however, is even more extraordinary than his machine. No mild-mannered tinkerer, the gruff and often profane tycoon rules an unlikely empire that includes a menagerie of wild animals, two Boeing 707 jets and a $70 million television studio...