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...every aspect of the student experience at Harvard. This attack directly challenges the ability of students to engage in free academic, or even personal development. Student energies are focused on responding to particular erosions of their rights, but miss the broader counter-revolution that has emerged--the administration's attempt to overturn the gains won by students in the last decade...
...policy--that students may demand ever-increasing control of their lives at Harvard--was most clearly expressed in the response to the recent South Africa demonstrations. The sight of thousands of students making demands (not requests) brought back memories of '69. The Faculty and administration see, quite rightly, an attempt to erode their power to set University policy. Such student demands demonstrate that students have concerns very different from other groups within the University. To counter this, the administration claims that no special avenues of input or control are necessary in investment and other decisions, because the administration is acting...
...broad Republican spectrum that signed it, the report makes little attempt at formulating a comprehensive alternative foreign policy. Commented State Department Spokesman Hodding Carter III: "The purpose of the opposition is to oppose, and such resolutions I don't find particularly surprising nor do I think they are particularly edifying" (see ESSAY). Added a high Administration official: "It is pure boiler plate ... Its partisanship is transparent and it doesn't begin to tell us what we ought to be doing instead." If such an attempt had been made, presumably the unanimity among Republicans as diverse as Clifford Case...
From time to time the Queen has used these rights incisively. In 1974, for example, she blocked Tory Prime Minister Edward Heath's attempt to form a minority coalition government after a Conservative defeat in the general elections; under the constitution, she told Heath bluntly, she was required to summon the leader of Commons' biggest party?Labor's Harold Wilson?to form a Cabinet...
Said Ma'ariv last week: "It is hard to say which is more serious, the deeds that were perpetrated in the Beit Jala school in contravention of orders and of any human decency, or the attempt to escape responsibility by a false report." No less surprised were the West Bank Arabs. Said Jabra Arag, a Beit Jala physician: "It is a great credit to Weizman that even in occupation, democracy can prevail...