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...this kind of observation about Harvard is that it is short and attracts a wide range of not-especially-Harvard types, people who come here from very different settings to which they will quickly return. Not given the chance to adapt, they go through the kind of rude clash between their non-Harvard selves and the University that is usually reserved for first-term freshmen here (and their malaise is different anyway, having to do more with the painful adjustment to being average...
...colony, which straddles the strategic waterway that links the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, could become the focus of "a kind of nationalistic, guerrilla type of operation that we have not seen before in the Western Hemisphere." He was referring to the very real prospect of a bloody clash between U.S. troops in the zone and angry Panamanians who want to gain control of the canal by force...
...young aide to the President does not hesitate to quarrel with the Chief Executive when their views on the environment clash. "He's on pretty thin ice sometimes," says Jack Ford, 23, the ardent skier and mountain cumber. "But I guess I'm too critical...
...clash with Congress over the conduct of foreign policy, the Ford Administration has achieved one tentative advance and suffered one major setback...
...from certain that this generation of leaders, or perhaps the next, will lead the Soviet police state into social democracy. They are cynical, philistine power brokers whose world is measured in terms of economic statistics and Communist Party control. There is no sign of the oft-predicted clash between the party bureaucrats and the industrial and scientific technocrats. Although it is rotten at the edges-as provincial political scandals reveal-the party network retains a tenacious monopoly of authority...