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...contradicted the testimony of other witnesses and evidence assembled by various investigations. He asserted, for example, that the idea had been broached by "a group of individuals, citizens of Iran," who wanted to lay the groundwork for better relations with the U.S. after the Ayatullah Khomeini died. Both the Tower commission and congressional investigating committees concluded that the deal had in fact been concocted by Israeli officials working with Manucher Ghorbanifar, an Iranian businessman with links to Khomeini's inner circle. The transactions were handled by National Security Adviser Robert McFarlane, with Reagan's approval...
...recall the most famous of the contra leaders even after he was shown a picture of the two of them together at a White House gathering. He had somehow missed the fact that McFarlane pleaded guilty in 1988 to withholding information from Congress. Shown the section of the Tower commission report that demonstrates that at least in early 1987 he was able to recall that profits from Iran arms sales were used to buy weapons for the contras, he professed surprise. "This is the first time I have ever seen that...
Should a university have the right to get rid of a "grossly incompetent" teacher? Should a professor whose classroom performance does students a "disservice" be sent packing? Outside the ivory tower, few people would say no. But when the University of California, Berkeley, last year became the first school to draft rules for firing tenured teachers, some charged that this amounted to an assault on their intellectual freedom. "You'll never go broke overestimating how sensitive the tenure issue is to faculty," says Richard Chait, director of the National Center for Post-Secondary Governance and Finance at the University...
Even beyond the ivory tower, people have long been limited in what they can say to each other. The United States Supreme Court decided in Chaplinsky v. New Hampshire that certain "epithets [are] likely to provoke the average person to retaliation, and thereby cause a breach of the peace." The decision goes on to assert...
...associations and sundry political associations. These activities can mean positions of prestige, ties of friendship, but they also mean commitment. Time and commitment. Behind every race, performance and magazine lies a large volume of meetings, rehearsals, practices, and planning sessions. Except for one loosely organized group--the Lowell Bell Tower Ringers. For them, every rehearsal is a performance, every performance a new composition. The only requirement for joining the group is a willingness to climb the eight flights of stairs and improvise on the ancient Russian bells. Any student is welcome to come watch and play, every Sunday morning...