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...process, preferably in time to help fill Putnam's spot. Faculty, alumni, and students all deserve to be able to vote to help appoint the Corporation members whose decisions often have such impact on them. At the same time, the Corporation should expand its size to make it more akin to the boards of other Ivy schools--a move that would make diversity more immediately attainable and that would make the board less of a coterie. Regular elections for seats with limited terms would also increase the body's responsiveness to a changing University community...
This is why those of us who worked closely with Nixon developed a grudging respect and something akin to tender protectiveness for him. His aberrations grew out of a desperate conflict of discordant elements; thus he was in truth the first victim of his own unharmonious nature. We saw a Nixon who could be gentle and thoughtful; some of his most devious methods were mechanisms to avoid hurting people face to face. With all his tough-guy pretensions, he really wanted to be remembered for his idealism. He spoke often of his mother and her gentleness; he missed her dreadfully...
Significantly, Princeton students haven't voiced any objections to the assigned housing, though it replaces a preferential system fairly akin to Harvard's. The reason: Princeton, tactically wise, opted to phase in pre-assignment so as not to affect any undergraduates present when the decision was made. Even Blacks at Princeton Inn, whom Miller says have used the dorm as a support system, haven't protested. Tomorrow's college students, as Princeton realized, enjoy no virtual representation; Harvard administrators eager to use their lottery to break down racial and other disparities would do well to follow that strategic lesson...
...president's armor is formidable. When the media clamps down, Reagan returns the favor by trying to seal leaks or dismissing queries with something akin to "There you go again," casting reporters as enemies of the national interest. Here the ruthless Realist in Reagan overshadows the Libertarian. When the Democrats dare to predict that Reagan's grand design will crumble under the weight of its internal contradictions, the president responds by calling these condemnations "wild charges" and warning his public not to "be fooled by those who proclaim that spending cuts will deprive the elderly, the needy and the helpless...
Having Judge Callister, a member of the Mormon Church, rule on the fate of the most significant piece of women's rights legislation since the 19th Amendment 60 years ago is akin to having an executive of the National Rifle Association decide on the constitutionality of gun-control legislation...