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Opinions on the strength of party divisions differ. Councilor David C. Wylie believes that outsiders make far too much of the differences between liberals and conservatives. The liberals, he says, actually vote conservatively on some issues. Saundra Graham, another liberal, takes a different view, however. In fact, Graham credits her liberal coalition with the success of many of the progressive measures the council has taken up recently. For starters, she notes the liberals have over the years been responsible for maintaining strong rent control legislation in Cambridge. And one of Graham's biggest concerns as a councilor, the issue...
...Egyptian apart from the desert Arabs, who are Semites. By contrast, a Hamitic strain prevails in the blood of Egypt's river people. Outsiders often have difficulty distinguishing a Syrian from a Jordanian, or either from a Lebanese. But an Egyptian stands out. His Arabic accent is different, and his speech is peppered with odd words, some dating from the pharaohs, some borrowed from visiting?or conquering?Europeans. Although Egypt is a predominantly Muslim land with a large Coptic minority, its customs differ from those of its Islamic neighbors. In Saudi Arabia, for example, tombs are unmarked, and the dead...
Well, I suddenly found all the parties concerned-Egypt, Jordan, Syria, Israel-starting to quarrel and differ on the procedural papers. Syria said that if this is an American paper, it is a colonial and imperialist paper. If it is an American-Israeli paper, well, it is colonial, Zionist, imperialist-all these descriptions. I felt also, when President Assad sent a special envoy to me, that Syria was not serious at all about going to Geneva. The Soviet Union was starting its own tricks with the Syrians and with the Palestinians...
...board's predictions differ from those being made by economists in the Carter Administration and by such private bodies as the Manhattan-based Conference Board only in being slightly more optimistic. But the members of the TIME Board of Economists have a special claim to attention: the predictions they made a year ago have been proved right, in one case to the last decimal point. Last December board members forecast that the real gross national product-that is, total production of goods and service discounted for inflation-would rise during 1977 by 4.8%; when all the numbers are added...
...would like to raise the following point for discussion. The authors of the previously quoted article wrote that "...a failure to respond to the expressed preference of the majority...is an arrogant denial of students' rights." In the case of a negative check-off, I beg to differ--I find it in principle oppressive for a majority to require a specific response on the part of a minority in the name of free choice when the same result can be reached without imposing this burden...