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Because the University has decided to abandon its traditional belligerent stance toward city leaders and neighborhood residents, there may be a happy ending for a parcel of property located across from the Mt. Auburn St. post office...
That policy shift may tempt Harvard to abandon keeping its hefty records on affirmative action endeavors, but the University should resist the urge. Harvard should continue to report publicly on its hiring efforts, and show that the Reagan Revolution should not and will not move affirmative action from the spotlight...
Some of the second papers now in deepest trouble were slowest to abandon the autocratic attitudes that gave them their character. Morton thinks that troubled second newspapers suffer from decisions they made or failed to make decades ago. Perhaps it is no accident that the papers Hearst owns in Los Angeles, Boston and Seattle are the troubled second papers in those cities. "The Hearst papers have been on a downhill slide for 30 years and are now a third-rate chain," says Allen H. Neuharth. The arrogance of Neuharth's remark comes from his success in building...
...them, carry more than 8,000 warheads, vs. only 1,600 for Soviet bombers and submarines. So why not plan on absorbing a Soviet first strike against Minuteman and hitting back with the two other legs of the triad? Brown thinks that would be a mistake too: "If we abandon the first leg of our triad as soon as it gets into trouble, we'd be encouraging the Soviets to go to work on making the second leg vulnerable, and then the third...
Rebel leader Gerry Adams, 34, recently spent an afternoon with the strikers in the Maze. They gathered in the TV room and, speaking only in Gaelic, Adams told them bluntly there was little chance of anything changing. If the strikers wanted to abandon their fast, he went on, they would not be scorned. They had already done more than could be asked...