Word: differences
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...serious people differ, it is an illusion to think that you can go through four years of an Administration like a college debating society. At some point the President has to choose which philosophy he wants to pursue if he wants to stake a claim to leadership. If there are philosophical disagreements, somebody has a problem of principle. The person who has a problem with principle ought to leave. On the other hand, if there is an agreement on principle, your disagreements are tactical and therefore soluble. This Administration has no coherent philosophy. If in the fourth year...
...considering the Muskie appointment, we should not be diverted by whether Muskie will "stand up" to Zbigniew Brzezinski more effectively than did Vance. Even if he does, the consequences for policy are likely to be marginal. The question is whether he will assert views that differ significantly from the President's. The further question is whether the President would submit to his Secretary's views, should they differ markedly from his own. To both questions, the answer is probably...
While time and subject overlap in the plays of Chekhov and Gorky, the two men differ in their angles of vision. Chekhov was a cardiologist of the wounded heart; Gorky was a cartographer of a scarred social landscape. Chekhov's characters transcend their enervating environment; Gorky's characters drown in the swamp of their surroundings...
...anything about it. Bok didn't do that." The president's second annual report criticized the aimlessness of undergraduate education and, some say, provided the impetus for the Core Curriculum. "Bok wrote the will for General Education," says one Faculty member, "and Rosovsky was the executor." Others differ in their assessments, saying that Bok merely tagged along and lent support; they also criticize the president for his essentially conservative view of education...
Some of us differ with Harberger in our assessment of the appropriate means of demonstrating our opposition to the Pinochet regime, but there is no difference of principle between the position stated in Harberger's letter and our own. Professors Stephen K. Bailey, School of Education Brian Berry, School of Design Harvey Brooks, Kennedy School James Duesenberry, Economics Samuel Huntington, Government Nathan Keyfitz, Sociology Stephen Marglin, Economics John Montgomery, Kennedy School Richard Musgrave, Economics Dwight Perkings, Economics Thomas Schelling, Kennedy School Peter Timmer, School of Public Health Raymond Vernon, Business School David Maybury-Lewis, Anthropology HIID Institute Fellows Clive Gray...