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...sentence, "I was born in the house my father built," and devotes nearly a third of its pages to Nixon's years before he achieved the presidency in 1968. Roughly another third concentrates on foreign policy, while a final third covers the Watergate scandal. The best parts apparently deal with Nixon's historic overture to China, containing some highly personal assessments of Chairman Mao and Chou Enlai. Nixon, claims Editor Markell, who visited San Clemente half a dozen times to work with the author, "has a sharp talent for being able to recall the sense of a person...
...addition, many legislators objected to Carter's strategy of submitting the three sales proposals to Congress as a package deal. The President hoped to get congressional approval for all three sales−or, if necessary, to end up with no sales at all. But some lawmakers objected to his tactics. Frank Church, the Idaho Democrat who will be the next chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, complained to Secretary of State Cyrus Vance that the "linking" of the three items "violates the intent and spirit of congressional review procedure...
...less income to run the University as prices continue to soar and that, therefore, the deficit must be made up if Harvard is to continue to deliver the kind of education for which students have competed so hard to obtain. Even the divestiture process itself would cost a great deal of money. Without for a moment agreeing wholeheartedly with the Corporation's decision of April 27, I have to ask whether students have thought about what total divestiture might actually mean. In brief, it might increase tuition...
Moral rectitude always costs a great deal on many levels. If students sincerely want Harvard out of South Africa, why has no on initiated a campaign for student pledges to bear whatever tuition hikes total divestiture might require...
Whether MIT or Harvard is better in terms of economics graduate schools, then, is no easy question, and depends a great deal on one's sources. As Perkins was quick to add, "Sure, eight or nine years ago, due to the nature of the late, '60s we certainly had problems with teaching and morale. But it would be wrong to impute those same problems to us nowadays, thus overlooking all the substantial improvements we've made since then...