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...hour, and if you answered "no one" and "who isn't?", this fall's stepped-up tempo in the great presidential sweepstakes is not likely to send chills down your spine. If you immediately thought of the one man you most admire in the United States, you are apt to be somewhat ignorant of the way Harvard works. For the task of choosing a new president is a giant game-a game which is played with deadly seriousness by many-but nevertheless a game, with an elaborate system of rules (sometimes called the candidate's qualifications) that determine...
...their complexity. The specific problem of hijacking might be reduced, but the larger threat suggested by last week's piracies remained. Small groups can tyrannize simply by finding a pressure point. The older metaphors for societies -the ship of state, the political machine -should perhaps be replaced. More apt would be a neurological or organic comparison, what Columbia's Zbigniew Brzezinski calls "the global nervous system," in which revolutionaries can cause not massive onslaughts but small and devastating aneurysms...
...take issue with your ascribing an underlying motive to the President in refusing to consult Congress before ordering military incursions into Cambodia [July 13]. His answer, though unmistakably concise and logical, is dismissed as not "apt." A responsible Commander in Chief does not inform the enemy of the time and location of an impending attack. I think you will find that a decided majority of troops, officers and high commanders will bear me out on the efficacy and soundness of this policy...
...broken. These children never seem to be listening to you; their eyes dart around the room while you are talking to them. They do not coordinate what they see and hear. Many of them talk a blue streak. If they do not instantly get their own way, they are apt to throw temper tantrums...
Secondly, if many young people were actually mad enough to do something dangerous, whatever the motivation, they should have been guided into something safer. The image in the Battle of Algiers of organization members checking a riot is apt. The crowd should be restrained and given a vicarious outlet, perhaps something that could have been seen and heard around the Square. But they should not have been encouraged to go to the Square-as these guys attempted-for a physical confrontation with the police...