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...constituency that feels embattled and disenfranchised, they differ in race, personality, theology and cultural attitudes. From opposing ends of the political spectrum, each of them is playing a similar role in his party's early maneuvering for 1988 -- and playing it with a gusto that promises (or threatens) to alter significantly the shape and outcome of the long presidential campaign that lies ahead...
Secretary of Defense Caspar Weinberger and his anti-arms control alter ego Richard Perle fought hard against the modest concessions on offensive weapons ^ and even harder against any concession on SDI. "Anything that gives up strategic defense would be undesirable in every way," Weinberger insisted last week. Even if the Soviets were to reduce their offensive arsenal in return, he added, curtailing SDI would be "a bad bargain for the world." Secretary of State George Shultz and his aides, especially Paul Nitze, have fought just as hard to move pieces rather than merely touch them...
...will alter the network architecture based on those requirements indicated in the survey," Ray said of the planning process...
Because of its small size and the diversity of its attitudes, Harvard beckons as a perfect environment for its citizens to participate in determining their common values. But beware of two dangerous predators that threaten to alter the natural balance of that community and make an open society an endangered species. They are administrators and students...
...committee is unlikely, however, to alter the words of Charles Wesley, the 18th century patriarch of Methodist hymnody, even though some of his most durable lines lapse into military similes. Still to be determined is whether the new edition will retain the stern admonition of Charles' brother John, the founding ancestor of Methodism, which prefaces the current collection of hymns: "Sing them exactly as they are printed here, without altering or (a) mending them...