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...dogmatic views. He once told an interviewer: "At 20, it sounds great to say that self-interest is the most destructive force in society. Now I believe that self-interest is an inherent part of the human condition and what we need to do is harness it, not abolish it." He boasts of paying little attention to pressure groups, even among his own constituents. Says he: "I'm not much of a horse trader or a head counter. I'm more interested in ideas than votes because we can't make rational policy in a country this...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: A Missionary For OMB | 12/22/1980 | See Source »

Mark A. Sauter '82, the other student elected to represent the House on CRR, told the House Committee that boycotting CRR would not abolish it. He added that students who disapproved of CRR's methods should sit on it so they could reform it from within. Pointing out that he had found time to serve on CRR despite his political activities on the Conservative Club, he advised the gay students who objected to the CRR to do the same...

Author: By Susan C. Faludi, | Title: Freshmen, Adams Suspend CRR Vote | 12/11/1980 | See Source »

...eyes of one competitor, Nolo's books are too detailed. "Most of what is available today is designed for either fourth-graders or professionals," says Paul Hasse, 26, a Rhodes Scholar and the founder of Help Abolish Legal Tyranny (HALT) in Washington, B.C. HALT'S guides are aimed at readers between those extremes. In contrast to Nolo, only one member of HALT'S nine-member staff is a lawyer. Supported by $15-a-year dues from 30,000 members, the two-year-old group devotes considerable time to lobbying for legal reforms and lambasting the profession...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Law: Those Sue-It-Yourself Manuals | 12/8/1980 | See Source »

...deal with youth problems, or even see that the potholes in Mass Ave are fixed. He will spend his term instead trying to find the least damaging cuts in services--which is more important, teen centers or Meals on Wheels? Do we put 35 kids in each class or abolish the rent control board? Increasingly, conventional politics will become an irrelevant profession, for without voters agreeing to increases in the current levels of taxation, little new can be done. And so young men and women not yet wedded to the profession will gradually drift out of the political arena. That...

Author: By William E. Mckibben, | Title: Crashing | 11/13/1980 | See Source »

...ferocity of the Weimar artists echoed the instability of the society itself, its institutions continually atotter from the assaults of left and right, of which the final result was the triumph of Hitler. But to classify them all (as the catalogue sloppily does) as "realist" is sim ply to abolish the meaning of the word...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: The Twenties' Bleak New World | 11/10/1980 | See Source »

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