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Since then my antagonism has been tempered greatly. This is precisely because I've come to realize that the finals clubs are most destructive not to those "left out" but to those who belong. Nothing helps personal development more than a "healthy" mix of peoples/backgrounds. The clubs, on the other hand, because of their de facto closed membership and the attitudes and atmosphere they engender, breed dullness, social complacency, general immaturity and the more obvious manifestations of pretentiousness...
...something--the crowd scenes for this amalgamation of roller derby and first degree assault were filmed in the Olympic Stadium in Munich. In a way, it's a shame--in the hands of a William Friedkin, this could have been a 90-minute reminder that the future does not belong to us. Instead it's a two-and-a-half hour monstrolsity. Stay home and read The Silmarrilon this weekend...
...Jacob Javits, 73, is preparing an amendment that would completely phase out mandatory retirement over a five-year period. This abrupt, stunning legislative success is the hallmark of another revolt in America, this time by the aged. The 1960s was the decade of aroused youth; the 1970s may well belong to their grandparents. Some 23 million Americans, about 10% of the population, are 65 or over. Numbers alone give them political clout, because they vote more consistently than younger groups. In addition, they have begun to organize with all the skill and determination of other embattled minorities. Such burgeoning pressure...
...same student said he was also uncomfortable with "the idea that once you belong to a club, all the people in it are your friends...
...assumption that if the department spent less money on technology and systems experts, and more on beat patrolmen, there would not be a contract problem. Harvard now employs 42 patrolmen--the same as MIT--but also 27 "sworn supervisors" and even more staff personnel, none of whom belong to the union. The MIT staff is less than half that. In the union's eyes, Harvard would be better off spending its money the way MIT does--which, coincidentally, would mean a proportionately larger union payroll...