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Despite the dogs' bloody reputation, owners such as Laue insist that purebred pit bulls have a "steady temperament and intense loyalty." Indeed, breeders believe that in time the animal will regain its gentler image of the 1930s, when a pit bull played Pete in the Our Gang films. Only 30 years ago, notes Ed Almeida, a dog trainer in El Monte, Calif., the Doberman was the most vicious of dogs. Now, he says, after years of careful breeding, Dobermans are "big boobs" compared with the pit bulls...
...student protests in South Korea ((WORLD, June 29)) have demonstrated one important fact: the outcry for democratic government will not die until that quest is successful. President Chun Doo Hwan must keep his promise to allow democratic elections so that the Koreans can regain faith in their government...
...dramas and scandals over the past 20 years--Vietnam, Watergate, Wall Street--suddenly has had an impact," says Dillon Professor of French Civilization Stanley Hoffmann, who teaches a course on "Ethics and International Relations" at Harvard. Hoffmann adds that the country must now try to regain and transmit its values...
...American history at Harvard struggles to regain the prominence it once had, the English department's wing is having difficulties...
...Sociology department has also been struggling for several years to regain the stature it once held as the nation's premiere department. This fall, the department granted tenure offers to three sociologists, and despite a history of offers being rebuffed, the department received three positive responses...