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...embattled economically, competing with people like the Koreans and Mexicans, who are willing to work harder for less, and the Japanese, who study more diligently, save more and spend less. We shouldn't begrudge their efforts to prosper, we should applaud them. But to prosper ourselves, we need to be as efficient as possible -- personally (turn off the TV if no one's watching it!), corporately and governmentally...
...have a chance to confer with the assistant in advance, of course--and we all like to be called "assistants," not "graders"--you may be able to ferret out one or two cosmic assumptions of his own; seeing them in your blue book, he can only applaud your uncommon perception. For example, while most graders are politically unconcerned, not all are agnostic. This is an older generation, recall. Some may be tired of seeing St. Augustine flattered by a phrase or a phrase reading about the "Xian myth...
Maybe it takes one to know one. Only a chronic rubber-check artist, after all, is likely to applaud the sweetheart deal Congress cut for itself with its own private bank. And only sophists are likely to go along with the argument that accepting bundles of money from political-action committees is not tantamount to taking bribes. Congress's refusal to consider real reform of its campaign-finance system makes sense only to other professional politicians, for many of whom retention of power is the paramount goal...
...WOULD LIKE TO take this opportunity to respond to the article appearing in Peninsula's October/November 1991 issue entitled "AIDS is not a gay disease." I applaud the author's intent to dispel any "lies" or "half-truths" and to inform the Harvard community of the "truth" surrounding HIV-infection and AIDS. But unfortunately, he presented information and statistics, often out-dated, which do not represent the entire present specter of the AIDS threat to both homosexual and heterosexual communities...
...face of it, bringing Noriega to justice seems to be an unqualifiedly good idea. Who wouldn't applaud the downfall of an odious dictator and the return of Panamanian democracy after 21 years of military rule? Unfortunately, things are not that simple. From Noriega's seizure in Panama to his long incarceration without bail, the U.S. government's relentless pursuit of the general has been a cause for concern to civil libertarians and constitutional experts...