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...minded impulse to change one’s country and the world is naïve or irrational, then what is the rational alternative? Is it that the world is unchangeable? Change is tough, but should we all resign ourselves to working within the confines of massive institutions that claim to tangentially effect “real” progress? Big institutions can often be agents for social change, but many times the young people that go work for them are too narrowly concerned with their own personal goals. A so-called reasoned impulse, it seems, leads only...
...didn’t so much as visit another college before move-in day four years ago and I cannot claim to have agonized over whether to accept Harvard’s offer of admission. But the usual suspects—professors, proximity to home, housing policies, advising, student life—were not the source of the few doubts I did harbor about coming to Harvard. It was the Boston Red Sox that were keeping me up at night.Could I, native New Yorker, a lifelong Yankees devotee, and bona fide Jetermaniac stand to reside in the heart...
...topple Nicaragua’s leftist regime. But the story resurfaced last month—and this time, Administration officials are privately not denying its validity. The Administration is concerned with the significant Nicaraguan arms buildup. But the Sandinistas, whose repeated friendly overtures to the U.S. have been ignored, claim they need a bigger army to repel a U.S. or U.S.-sponsored invasion. When Administration officials admit that such plans are in the works, it isn’t difficult to empathize with the Nicaraguans. President Reagan wants to squeeze communism out of Latin America, a goal that even some...
...matter. State courts ruled that Osborne waited too long to raise the issue, and federal courts deferred to that decision. The 11th Circuit panel closed the matter in dry and technical terms: "The state trial court relied upon Georgia procedural rules in denying Osborne relief on this claim. As such, the claim is barred from federal review...
...difficult to negotiate with them; they're mentally stuck in the 1970s and '80s," says Atilio de Angeli, one of the leaders of the farm revolt. Indeed, while the farmers claim to want to negotiate with the government, they say the government does not want to reciprocate. "This is not a farm protest; this is a lockout," growled Peronist legislator Carlos Kunkel, an unofficial spokeman for the Kirchners, comparing the farmers to company owners who shut down their factories rather than negotiate with striking employees...