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...Carswell (wherever you are), think, all of you: imagine the situation of your grader. (Unless, of course he is of the Wheatstone Bridgedouble differential CH3C6H2 (NO2)3 set. These people are mere cogs; automata; they simply feel to make sure you have punched the right holes. As they cannot think, they cannot be impressed; they are clods. The only way to beat their system is to cheat.) In the humanities and social sciences, it is well to remember, there is a man (occasionally a woman), a human type filling out your picture postcard. What does he want to read...
Some questions are so fraught with political ambiguity that a criminal trial cannot answer them completely. One such conundrum: Who should be held accountable for the Iran-contra affair? Last week a jury in Washington rendered a judgment on retired Marine Lieut. Colonel Oliver North. But it was a verdict equivocal enough for both the defendant and the prosecutor to hail it. North proclaimed a "partial vindication" because he was found not guilty of nine felony charges. Prosecutor John W. Keker asserted that North's convictions on three other counts demonstrated "the principle that no man is above...
...senior Administration officials inferentially warned against rushing into agreements predicated on the idea that Gorbachev will succeed in reforming Soviet society. Robert Gates, No. 2 at the National Security Council, asserted in a speech and article in the Washington Post that "our view of the Soviet Union cannot be based on the personalities of its leaders but on the nature of the Soviet system itself. We face a deeply entrenched philosophy and system of government that has depended on repression at home and promoted aggression beyond its borders. Gorbachev is challenging some aspects of this system, but even he acknowledges...
...Nitze, a Reagan special adviser on arms control who had just retired from the Government, told the New York Times that the U.S. demand for modernization of Lance missiles, together with the refusal to negotiate on short-range weapons, was "politically impossible for much of Europe." He added, "I cannot think of a German who would agree to that. Many of the allies think it is a crazy proposition." Nitze pointed out that NATO could benefit from successful talks because the Soviets have 1,600 short-range missile warheads in Europe...
...Think of any problem on a college campus--a date rape, a racial incident or a brawl. Most of the time, this will be [related to] drinking," Wechsler says. "This is not strictly cause and effect. We cannot conclude that alcohol causes these problems. It could be that the same type of person who drinks gets into this type of trouble," Wechsler says. "But it certainly contributes...