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Michael Novak, a Catholic theologian and perceptive analyst of U.S. politics, wrote recently in the Washington Post: "The source of discomfort is that they [Northerners] do not know at first hand the pressures that shaped him, his inner demons and his inner angels. They can't confidently imagine scenarios of various pressures upon him and predict how he will act. He is, from his point of view, an outsider breaking in on their world. But they are, from their point of view, outsiders who can't quite understand what makes him tick...
This method, passed by CHUL last year, requires that Collier determine a "pain factor" for each House based primarily on the average amount of room space available in each House. After setting the relative discomfort caused by crowding in each House, Collier is then to set the quota of students assigned to each House in order to equalize crowding in all Houses...
Humphrey watched the Carter gains with increasing discomfort. It didn't help when Carter had a press conference and called the Senator too old and a loser and even untruthful. So last week Humphrey began to edge out from behind his "non-candidacy...
AFFIRMATIVE ACTION provides the most striking example of Bok's confused priorities. Regulations in that area have led to "the preparation of exquisitely detailed pieces of paper," Bok says, rather than to concrete improvements for minority and women faculty. Bok's discomfort with affirmative action is well-rooted in the Harvard tradition; Harvard took three years, from 1970 to 1973, to draw up a plan for improving its hiring record that would meet the government's minimum standards. Those three years of negotiation and revision, in fact, account for much of the paperwork and expense that Bok bemoans...
...because the treaty was "paralyzed" in any case. There was no mention of the fact that only last month at the 25th Party Congress, Party Boss Leonid Brezhnev had dismissed rumors of rift and pledged to strengthen Soviet-Egyptian relations. The U.S. was quietly delighted by Moscow's discomfort, especially because Cairo editorials likened the Soviet failure to honor the treaty to an old debacle in Egyptian-U.S. relations: the refusal by John Foster Dulles two decades ago to arm Egypt or finance the Aswan High Dam, which prompted Gamal Abdel Nasser to turn East and open Egypt...