Word: offers
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Saying the Law School should solve its own problems, Dean Robert C. Clark has declined the Rev. Jesse L. Jackson's offer to help mediate a stand-off between the administration and Weld Professor of Law Derrick A. Bell over affirmative action policies...
...blacks who reject their roots, of the brothers and sisters too busy partying to see the problem. P.E.'s new album, Fear of a Black Planet, qualifies as dance music that is dense music: soul with a vengeance and the most challenging street art that rap has to offer...
...sick Soviet economy needs a remedy. But is there a prescription for converting a torpid communist behemoth into a sleek free- market machine? It was assistant managing editor Karsten Prager's idea that TIME, which has periodically convened groups of experts to diagnose the U.S. and European economies, could offer some friendly advice. In the spirit of glasnost, we called in a specialist to collaborate with TIME's Washington- based national-economics correspondent Richard Hornik in composing the Rx memo to Mikhail that appears in this week's business section...
...with Buthelezi has caused an embarrassing disagreement between Mandela and fellow A.N.C. officials. While in prison, Mandela infuriated some in the congress by writing a conciliatory letter to Buthelezi. Recently Mandela proposed meeting with Buthelezi as a way of cooling down the conflict, but then he abruptly withdrew the offer. Mandela admitted last week that some of his comrades "nearly throttled me" over the issue...
...paucity of talent, meanwhile, has led to an unseemly bounty hunt, with big-budget schools scrambling to offer huge salaries and perks for highly qualified minority candidates. The State University of New York recently lured black African-studies expert Ali Mazrui from the University of Michigan with a seductive phone call from Governor Mario Cuomo and a salary...