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Voluntary removal of the flag, not administrative coercion, is the optimal resolution of the current controversy. The Harvard community can encourage this outcome by letting the flag's owner know that even the suggestion of racism will not be tolerated on campus...
Unity was enforced and nationalist ambitions suppressed over the decades with ruthless coercion by the KGB, supplemented by privileges for the local party leaders who carried out Moscow's directives. Under Gorbachev, the use of force inside the Soviet Union was discouraged, and the party's hidebound patronage system came under direct attack. By denouncing the government's "command-administrati ve" methods, Gorbachev hoped to invigorate the system and increase its efficiency...
Third, even without this coercion, many students would still prefer their house dining halls. Students are aware that dining halls are good places to meet their friends, and there are few places in the Square besides the Harvard dining halls where you can get an all-you-can-eat dinner...
Voluntary removal of the flag, not administrative coercion, is the optimal resolution of the current controversy. The Harvard community can encourage this outcome by letting the flag's owner know that even the suggestion of racism will not be tolerated on campus...
With justification. Burnham, a veteran investigative reporter and author (The Rise of the Computer State), suggests that the IRS frequently uses its extraordinary powers of coercion in a presumptuous and reckless manner. He illustrates the charge with numerous cases, a few obviously selected for comic relief: the New York teenager, for example, who questioned the constitutionality of the income tax in a letter published in the Buffalo Courier-Express. Suspecting criminal noncompliance, 15 agents tailed the boy for four days, discovering that he talked to his mailman, ate pizza and read pornographic magazines. True, he never filed a tax form...