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...even more remarkable dimension: they worked, and worked almost flawlessly. That is not the way they were supposed to go. The Soviets and more than a dozen Communist countries stayed away, suggesting that the Games would end in terrorism and ruin. Some said that the Los Angeles smog would choke the runners, that the extra traffic would bring the freeways to a fuming standstill, that the Soviet boycott would turn the Games into a * financial disaster and render them athletically meaningless. But nothing of the kind occurred...
...sign our age, and perhaps a hopeful sign, that these questions are treated with earnest skepticism. Plenty of careful medical and environmental studies have made it clear that suicide may well be an attractive alternative to "living" through a nuclear exchange. And yet something threatened to choke sympathy off at the throat. Were the Brown students 1980s zoot-suiters who had spoiled a serious issue with a publicity stunt, muddying the earnest reputation of Ivy League students? It is difficult not to ask the question...
...past few weeks', Walter Mondale has tried to make the deficit question a central issue in the presidential election. In campaign speeches, he says that Government red ink threatens to "hike interest rates, choke off investment, clobber trade, destroy rural America, kill jobs and shrink our future." He proposes reducing the deficit by two-thirds over the next five years, mostly by curbing the growth of defense spending and raising taxes for families with annual incomes of more than $25,000. Reagan remains adamant against tax hikes, arguing that spending reductions and strong economic growth will trim the deficit...
...content. Let a thousand flowers bloom. Get you to your Ukrainian Institute, and you to Wigglesworth Hall. And you enjoy your "Survey of Western Art 1300-Present," and you your "Financial Accounting." And you from West Palm Beach, Florida, meet your roommate from Omaha, Nebraska. May the admissions office choke on that ghastly word diversity, but Harvard Tradition, struggle as we may against it, is sure to bring us all down in the end anyhow. There is Vertias in what this book has to tell us after...
...Saudis have made every effort to stay out of the war, even though they have given Iraq billions of dollars for weaponry. They have refused to fire back at Iranian planes that for the past month have flown into Saudi airspace in response to Iraq's efforts to choke off Iranian oil exports by firing at tankers using Iran's oil ports. As a result, Iran has been able to count on a big advantage: the determination of Saudi Arabia and the smaller gulf states to stay out of the conflict. Now, it appears, the Saudi policy...