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honoured two plays that had closed by the time of the award, said they
had been afraid of displeasing the League. New York Times 12 (June 13,
1992).
78 New York Times A14 (October 24, 1990).
79 New York Times M (December 12, 1990).
Harvard law professor Randlall Kennedy invited Indiana University law
professor Craig Bradley to contribute to a symposium on Clarence
Thomas in Kennedy's Reconstruction magazine, whose goal is to foster
"robust, wide-open debate." After telling Bradley that the article had
been accepted, Kennedy rejected it "because of your references to the
infamous Coke can [on which Thomas claimed to have found a pubic hair
at the EEOC] and the matter involving pornography [testimony by a black
woman law school classmate that Thomas had described x-rated films to
her several times]." Kennedy explained: "I press for candor, but I also
press for a certain degree of intellectual discipline. I thought there was a
hint of smarminess in his piece. . . ." New York Times B12 (September
11, 1992).
80 Chronicle of Higher Education A31 (lanuary 22, 1992). Donors to
universities can earmark funds for particular subjects and even choose
the occupants of endowed chairs. LeeM. Bass (Yale'79 and member ofa
billionaire family) gave Yale $20 million for a new elective course of
studies in Western Civilisation, "a field that for more than a decade has
been under attack while many colleges and universities increased their
emphasis on the study of people and cultures outside the Western
tradition." Although Yale already offered a survey and three specialised
courses on the subject, Stephen H Balch, president of the conservative
National Association of Scholars, applauded the gift as "a very important
gesture and message being sent to the rest of the academic community
about what has been neglected for a long time and now should be
addressed." New York Times A10 (April 18, 1991).
81 New York Times A15 (November 5, 1990); Los Angeles Times A3 (March
16,1992), A14 (April 21,1992). In response to a finding by the Center for
Media and Public Affairs that the average soundbite in the 1988 election
was only 7.3 seconds CBS adopted a policy of not reporting as news any
candidate statement less than 30 seconds long! New York Times A8 (July
3, 1992).
Stations are not required to accept issue-oriented ads. The CBS affiliate
in Buffalo (WIVB) rejected a National Abortion Rights Action League ad
showing the Statue of Liberty and flag as a narrator read a plea to make
"abortion less necessary" by encouraging sex education and birth control.
A WIVB spokesman explained: "Even if Operation Rescue had not
been in town, I'd question the ad. It's a sensitive issue, and we elected not
to get involved." Stations differ in the degree of documentation they
require for factual statements. During the 1990 North Carolina senatorial
race between Republican incumbent Jesse Helms and black pro-choice
challenger Harvy Gantt, the state Republican party warned stations
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