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They may even get worse. It does mean that the incredible strength of America is being freed to contend with them. It is not only right...
Denying one's origins is a hard thing to do unless you especially despise your parents or hometown. I never had to contend with ill-feelings toward either one, so Step 3 happened relatively effortlessly. But it's not all that simple. Since stereotyping is rampant at Harvard, people tend to deny parts of themselves that might be associated with some innocuous stereotype. For example, though I knew nothing about prep schools when I got to Harvard, I soon realized that they are the source of endless snide remarks. I met preppies who were truly embarrassed about their background...
...make the best of a case that many constitutional experts consider untenable, he nevertheless was cornered by deft questioning into revealing the unreasonable limits of the President's privilege claims. Yet he repeatedly drove home his central theme: "The President is not above the law. Nor does he contend that he is. What he does contend is that as President the law can be applied to him in only one way, and that is by impeachment." But a decision against Nixon would inevitably affect impeachment, St. Clair warned the court, and that is a political "thicket" into which the Justices...
...members across the country. Founded in 1968 by genteel Wall Street Broker H. Lyman Stebbins and four other concerned Catholics, C.U.F.'s main complaint is that religious indoctrination of Catholic youngsters has virtually been taken over by liberal priests, nuns and publishers. As a result, they contend, traditional doctrines of faith and morals are hardly taught in many schools (they have even cited some texts that do not include the Ten Commandments). C.U.F. has ties with the increasingly vocal conservative movement in Europe. Along with similar organizations in seven other nations, it is a member of a loose confederation...
Many question why the U.S. should be so eager to help the Russians catch up economically and technically. European critics contend that American corporations have been pressured by the Nixon Administration to give invaluable information to the Russians. "It was a giveaway of technology," says Walter Laqueur, director of London's Institute of Contemporary History. "It induced American industrialists to make their technology available for nothing or for a symbolic price. I do not mean agriculture or pharmacology either. I mean things that could be helpful to the [Soviet] army and space programs...