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...have a cogency of their own. Discussing what he perceives as the modern tendency to appeal to government to solve all ills, including governmental ones, he writes that "government, trusted and feared, obeyed and avoided, revered and disdained, had become very much like a religion. Its role was to confront evil for the rest of us." Reeves' reporting and analysis compare well with Tocqueville's own, which is to say they are first-rate. His journey through a middle-aged nation that Tocqueville saw in its youth took him through uneven terrain somewhere between smugness and despair, among...
...release this week of a new report showing wide demographic gaps among the undergraduate Houses is forcing College officials to confront a problem most say they would prefer to forget about...
...have its greatest on land based ballistic missiles, on which Moscow relies much more heavily than does the U.S. and leaves unaffected such American weapons as the Cruise missile and intercontinental bombers. Therefore, when and if the two sides get down to business in Geneva, the Administration will likely confront a Kremlin counter-proposal which it finds as unpalatable as Moscow doubtless will find Reagan's. Then the hard part will begin. The $1.5 million question is whether both sides are genuinely interested in compromising in order to find common ground in which case Reagan's program is valid...
...hundred and fifty students at an anti-war meeting agree to confront Bok with demands to end what they call Harvard's complicity in the Vietnam war, threatening to occupy another building if the University does not meet their demands. The threatened occupation never materialized...
...beat can offer--shooting away bums, dispersing crowds of rowdy kids, and knowing the difference between neighborhood "regulars" and "strangers". As James Q. Wilson and George L. Kelling pointed out in an article in the March Atlantic, the return of foot-patrols would not necessarily reduce crime, but would confront the "sense that the street is disorderly, a source of distasteful, worrisome encounters...