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...sweeping tax-reform bill, struggled last week to calculate whether they would be winners, losers or survivors under the proposal. While many could see their fate almost instantly, other executives besieged their accountants with questions about the tax plan as they rushed to decide whether to support or condemn the bill, which is scheduled for debate by the full Senate early next month. "I've had to replace my phone handle several times in the past week," quipped Barry Wallach, a partner with the Chicago-based Arthur Andersen accounting firm...
...radical politics. I embrace many of the political and moral sentiments associated with liberalism. I maintain, however, that the highest aspirations of liberalism can only be attained by a willingness to reject certain deeply entrenched social practices and by a willingness to indulge in speculative thought that some will condemn as hopelessly utopian. Randall Kennedy Harvard Law School
...Marxism does not have the solution for the working class." In the past Obando has attacked Nicaragua's unpopular universal military draft and urged young men to enter seminaries as a way of avoiding it. He has urged the government to negotiate with the contra rebels and declined to condemn the Reagan Administration's effort to provide the guerrillas with $100 million in U.S. funding, a stand that prompted d'Escoto / to label the Cardinal a traitor...
...Harvard students very much. The whole trend on the issue has diverged from one of trying to convince both students and administrators of the need for divestment to one of browbeating, obstruction and intimidation. I salute the bravery of the student who approached me in the dining hall--and condemn the tactics he apparently feels compelled...
...quality of instruction poses different questions. On this score, it is fashionable to condemn Harvard and other leading universities for neglecting teaching in favor of an all-consuming preoccupation with research. Much of this criticism focuses on the methods used in making faculty appointments. In fact, appointments procedures throughout the University make provision for considering each candidate's teaching skills. Nevertheless, critics often reply that if Harvard really cared about instruction it would award tenure to outstanding teachers even though they have not produced distinguished research. This reaction fails to take account of all that is involved in making wise...