Word: present
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...hard to get to from most parts of the country. Traffic congeals on summer weekends, train service is poor, and the airport lacks a real passenger terminal. Costs are high, says Paine Webber analyst Lee Isgur, "because basically New Jersey is a scummy place for unions and bureaucracy." The present mayor has been indicted for corruption and influence peddling, the fourth of the past six incumbents to be charged with a crime...
Even more troubling is a revisionist approach to history in which groups that have gained power in the present turn to remaking the past in the image of their desires. If 18th, 19th and earlier 20th century society should not have been so dominated by white Christian men of West European ancestry, they reason, then that past society should be reinvented as pluralist and democratic. Alternatively, the racism and sexism of the past are treated as inextricable from -- and therefore irremediably tainting -- traditional learning and values...
Much of the disturbing news about Chernobyl comes from journalists who have toured the area. Among the most prominent is Igor Kostin, a photographer who % has covered the tragedy from the early days after the accident. His latest set of photographs, taken within the past four months, present haunting images, including scenes of children still living in contaminated towns and shots of animals born horribly deformed, possibly because of radiation. The pictures, which are being published for the first time in the West in these pages, are part of an exhibition organized by the Italian firm Imago that will...
Contrary to McLaughlin's revisionist view of past "good times" versus the "less-spirited" present, Catholic alumni returning to Harvard rather consistently point out that the number of students involved and the variety of opportunities offered to Catholics have never been greater...
...committee had planned to present Bok with a list of student signatures on a petition supporting divestment. As we talked, Bok noticed the petition and told us that he would not care even if we had 6000 students' signatures on a petition. Only rational arguments, he said, could convince him to support divestment...