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...suggestion involving Faculty conflict of interest. The council says it is postponing discussion on the proposal, which would have required Faculty members with potentially serious conflicts of interest to report them to the University, because it is vaguely written. Although the council certainly should not hasten to adopt a policy it will regret, the issues raised in recent months cry out for an update of Harvard's 15-year-old position...
...President: "We go out and run against the Democrats in 1982 because they did not give Ronald Reagan the program that he promised the American people in 1980. We are not afraid to lose this round. We are patient people; we know what we want." Which strategy to adopt is a choice that can be made only by Reagan himself. Advisers figure that the President can put off the decision until June, when Congress Begins voting seriously on a tax bill...
More "advanced" societies have forgotten the demonic language of superstition and luck, which they are inclined to call "dumb" or "blind." They often have no better explanation than primitives do for luck's strange intercessions, but they generally adopt a strategy both passive and fatalistic, a stoical mixture of rationalism and resignation to luck's works. Today it is mainly gamblers who stay on intimate and dangerous terms with luck and try to tame and possess it. Here and there, state lotteries have tried to bureaucratize luck-a dreary business and a contradiction in terms...
Flurries of protest have arisen subsequently on the Princeton campus. In 1918 and again in 1949, it was the demands of the students themselves which forced the clubs to consider the necessity of 100 percent, and finally compelled them to adopt it over strong alumni opposition. The principle has long since, however, degenerated from the intent of its founders, and this year was openly exposed as a patent farce...
Charging that United States companies which operate in South Africa "contradict our tradition of liberal democracy and justice," Sen. Paul Tsongas (D-Mass.) yesterday called upon students to demand that the University adopt a stronger divestiture policy...