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...interests. If Harvard were to balance its arguably defensible investments or gifts with strong institutional stands against social injustice, thereby making it clear that it does not mean to consent to evil, perhaps Bok's argument would hold water. But the acrobatics displayed by the Corporation this spring only buttress the conclusion that Harvard proceeds institutionally from prudence rather than morality...
...defense will undoubtedly use a number of Hinckley's rambling verses to buttress its portrayal of the would-be killer as a tortured psychotic who cannot be held accountable for his actions. "[Pretend] you are Satan's long-lost illegitimate son/ a solitary weed among the carnations," Hinckley wrote in one poem, "a child without a home/ the loser of a one-man race." Another verse notes: "I have become what I wanted to be all along, a psychopathic poet...
...more than sophisticated adding machines or memory banks) the SUMEX program works with "uncertainty" factors. These yield recommendations to physicians that avoid simplistic black-and-white terms in favor of various shades of gray. The program is designed to take into account all the available evidence that might either buttress or call into doubt a given medical hypothesis. This enables a physician to go back to the computer and question it as to how it weighed the relevant information and arrived at its recommendations...
More recently, Inman was said to have been upset by White House leaks that sought to buttress Administration policies in Central America and especially by the contention that the Soviet Union and Cuba were behind the trouble in Nicaragua and El Salvador. Although Inman generally shared the Administration's thesis, he felt that its disclosures about U.S. surveillance of the region compromised CIA intelligence-gathering methods...
...current struggle in the Middle East is one between possibilists and impossibilists the tragedy lies in the incentive to intransigence on each actor's part. Those who focus on Israel's stubbornness encourage Israel isolation and buttress Menachem Begin's approach by strengthening Israel's adversaries. The vicious rejectionist cycle that ensues holds out little hope for an end to persistent conflict through compromise...