Word: cols
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Watching Lt. Col. North testify in Congress this week, one is struck by the extent to which our foreign policy has been conducted without the consent or knowledge of the American people for the past few years. But the shock turns to dismay when one realize that Harvard runs itself in much the same way. Administrators run the school and students watch, not knowing what they do and, in many cases, not caring anyway...
...that over the summer the Administration devised and acted upon a secret plan to deceive the American media--by planting an apocryphal story in The Wall Street Journal--so as to convince Libyan military officers that an American invasion of their country was imminent and incite them to depose Col. Khadaffy. A laudable aspiration, perhaps, but one which the Administration sought to achieve through manipulative means wholly in contradiction with fundamental American values about honesty and forthrightness in government. Making matters more repulsive was a report a few weeks later which showed that the Administration doctored the evidence...
Said Hall: "It would be fair to Col. North...
That brought a rejoinder later from Rudman that "Col. North's not being here to answer these charges is his choice, not ours...
...With respect to the shredding and the other activities, which I have to admit do not look very good," Hatch began, joining in the laughter that followed. "Do you feel...that regardless of how bad they might look, do you think that we should hear Col. North's explanations for those actions before we draw any final conclusions...