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After meeting with the Faculty Committee on Athletic Sports last week. Watson said. "It is my decision that Munro should stay and be given another chance. My mind is not made up and I could still easily be persuaded to alter my decision. There's a lot to be said for both sides...
...Capitol-even to someone carrying 15-20 lbs. of dynamite in a briefcase -has been one of the strengths of the American democracy: the nation's laws have been written within full view of its citizens. Now security measures are likely to be forthcoming, and they will alter tradition, however slightly...
...them, each in turn. In "Against Interpretation" (1964) Sontag makes a case for interpreting interpretation (at this time in history) as a social force of repression against new forms, as a purging of "dangerous emotions" (like Aristotelian tragedy) in dangerous works which refuse to purge themselves, by attempting to alter them intellectually...
Historically, international adversaries have demonstrated a compulsion to seek every gain, however marginal, at the expense of their competitors. In this classical conception, the accumulation of gains over a period of time could alter the balance of power. This may have been realistic in the past. But it is folly for the great nuclear powers to conduct their policies in this manner. For if they succeed, it can only result in confrontation and potential catastrophe...
Both Harold Wilson's Laborites and Ted Heath's Tory leadership have condemned Powell, a former professor of Greek and former Health Minister; Heath removed Powell from the Tory shadow cabinet in 1968 following the "rivers of blood" speech. Both parties, however, have sought to alter their policies to reduce his impact. For instance, the new immigration bill's proposal that the government "assist" nonpatrials to go home was inspired by Powell's more bellicose call for "massive-albeit voluntary-repatriation." Accordingly, Home Secretary Reginald Maudling declared in Commons last week, when the bill was introduced...