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Congress should not defer to the pressures applied by the NRA and the gun industry. Too many times, government has abandoned efforts to eliminate menaces to the whole nation when one industrial sector or another begins to howl. The problem of guns affects all of society. No small minority should hinder the efforts to find a solution...
While some graduates may not personally feel women should be admitted to the club, they will probably defer to the undergraduates' wishes, said Evan W. Thomas Ill '73, a graduate member who has been asked by Fly Graduate President Eric Vogt '70 to speak on the club's behalf...
...sense of fatalism about their choices. A law partner who put in 350 work hours during her three-month maternity leave is convinced that her time off diminished her chances of advancement; but the advice she gives, echoed by a majority of women in the survey, is, "Do not defer your personal life. Men don't, and you shouldn't. You will be discriminated against as a woman whether or not you have a personal life." An unmarried Boston law partner offers another practical tip: "Have your children at one job and your career at another...
Scientists are also trying to find inborn personality traits that might make people more physically aggressive. The tendency to be a thrill seeker may be one such characteristic. So might "a restless impulsiveness, an inability to defer gratification," says psychologist Richard Herrnstein of Harvard, whose theories about the hereditary nature of intelligence stirred up a political storm in the 1970s. A high threshold for anxiety or fear may be another key trait. According to psychologist Jerome Kagan, also of Harvard, such people tend to have a "special biology," with lower-than-average heart rates and blood pressure...
...will President Clinton bend his knee to the murderous thugs who lead Serbian aggression in Bosnia? How far can they push him without a response that preserves American honor? Those questions must be asked after Clinton's disastrous first move in Bosnia. Consider what the president did to defer to Serbian sensibilities--and what he got in return...