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International students present different problems to the admissions process because they often lack extracurricular activities and have difficulty providing the breadth of information required for applications, Fitzsimmons said...
WHILE it is important that we not forget to understand Marx, Durkheim, Weber and Smith, their respective life-worlds, and the ways in which their ideas have influenced past and present thinkers, it is intellectually questionable, and pedagogically unsound, to neglect the views of the best contemporary inheritors of this tradition, which is what is taught in any good sociology department such...
Modern sociology, like modern economics, has filtered out the best of its intellectual heritage and, with the aid of modern methods of investigation, made a living thing of the tradition of western social thought in its studies of present--and past--social structures, processes and problems...
...agree with it. Kissinger and I have often talked about that. And there, we have to look at the intricacies of the peace agreement of '73. Had that agreement been implemented as it was, it would be a very different situation than it is at the present time...
...Baltic republics present a special dilemma for Gorbachev, since they enjoyed independence between the two World Wars, before being consigned to Moscow by the Nazi-Soviet pact of 1939 -- an accord the Kremlin has belatedly admitted was unjust. Thus, Lithuania, as well as Estonia and Latvia, claims it has been occupied by the U.S.S.R. for the past 50 years. Gorbachev's saber rattling aside, there is every indication he believes the three republics have the right to secede, though only after Moscow has agreed to the terms of the separation. He reiterated the point last week at a meeting with...