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Economic success has brought a new international self-confidence. It is the Mexican government that is offering to play the leading role in negotiating a solution in El Salvador. The joint declaration with France, recognizing the legitimacy of Salvador's revolutionary movement, was a direct affront to President Reagan's Central American policy and drew the wrath of most conservative powers in the region. And as an acknowledged leader of underdeveloped countries, Mexico will host next month's historic conference on North-South relations...
...Students Association (GSA) was treated by the Faculty Council even though the so-called "quashing" of the GSA's request for leaflets in registration packets applied equally to every student group on campus. Using some unarticulated but obviously twisted logic, the Crimson interpreted this policy as an affront directed exclusively at the Gay community. For some unknown reason, none of the other student groups suffered any hardship or needed a Crimson editorial to rally for its cause...
This finding was neither surprising nor an affront to those institutions. Part of the problem lies in Harvard's loose, informal advising network; but mostly, the deficiency is attributable to the fact that these organizations were established to meet other needs...
...work of the classical economists, against whom Galbraith has labored long, is based on the Smithean premise that the cupidity of each man will contribute to the greater good of all. Now this assumption, as handy as it might be for the world's voracious strivers, presents a considerable affront to those who think greed is a bad thing, among whom, I suspect, is Galbraith. So while Adam Smith and his spirtual heirs, from Alfred Marshall to Milton Friedman to Arthur Laffer, contorted the concept of greed into a good thing, Galbraith said no; greed exists, and will ensure...
...plot. All movement is as spontaneous as the music, which soon rides into Going to the Mardis Gras and, at last, into the tune that seems to be everybody's great expectation: When the Saints Go Marching In. A young woman in frayed jeans curves backward, in an affront to gravity, all the while clapping her hands, rending the air with throaty singing- "Oh, when the saints. . ." At times such carryings-on have been known to get out of hand...