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Underneath its veneer of Oriental politesse and indirection, Tanaka's message was remarkably similar. "Not even the United States, with all its might, can unilaterally solve the problems that beset the world today," the Japanese Prime Minister said in a speech to the National Press Club. "Nor should we expect it to do so. These challenges can be met only through global cooperation, and especially through the close collaboration of Japan, the U.S. and Europe." Washington's decision to cut back on exports of soybeans, one of Japan's principal sources of protein, coupled with various other...
...Moreover, the movie obfuscates the fundamental question it asks--what is Benjamin Braddock to do with his life?--with a fairy tale convention--love tried, tested and won, to be carried off in an orange bus. And so it obscures a radical secret of the 60s: that youth was beset by a desperate anti-mainstream anxiety. This is a movie, finally, that lowers rather than raises consciousness. The Plaza Theatre...
...Moreover, the movie obfuscates the fundamental question it asks--what is Benjamin Braddock to do with his life?--with a fairy tale convention--love tried, tested and won, to be carried off in an orange bus. And so it obscures a radical secret of the 60s: that youth was beset by a desperate antimainstream anxiety. This is a movie, finally, that lowers rather than raises consciousness. The Plaza Theatre...
...Robert Musgrove of Chicago. Four years ago, he got an SBA loan to open the city's only photographic lab owned by a black. Today he is trapped between an inadequate cash flow and the desire to expand. He is working mostly to pay off the SBA. Beset by similar problems, as well as by undercapitalization and bad management, many other blacks simply close their doors. A recent survey in Chicago showed that 80% of the black-owned firms that were founded in 1972 folded by the end of the year...
STILL, in a University beset with political problems, few people, if any, have charged that the system contains any political bias. Radicals like Herbert I. Gintis say that radical theses receive high honors. But he explained that the system is biased toward certain forms of academic discipline. An accepted mode of academic work usually receives some form of magna, while an experimental thesis runs the risk of offending its reader...