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Since Moroccan officials say privately that Gaddafi cannot be trusted, and since the Libyan leader has not hidden his disdain of Hassan's Western ways, the union is likely to meet the same fate as Libya's King previous marriages...
When it comes to using TV, Ferraro is a curious throwback. Many new-style politicos in both parties disdain routine congressional chores, trying instead to make their reputations-and win votes-over the tube. Everyday in the House, blow-dried young Congressmen rise to give mini-stump speeches that are carried on cable TV and often picked up at home by local news shows. "Ferraro is no photo-op type," says Christopher Matthews, an aide to O'Neill...
...Scum might seem more engaging and colorful if he were not so familiar: another in a long line of romantics who disdain the bourgeois "scramble for outside things like money or status," a lesser descendant of that definitive rogue-genius Gulley Jimson, hero of Joyce Gary's The Horse's Mouth. For a man who claims that most of his life has been "a flight from boredom," Scum has an amazing tolerance for bull-session profundities. Scarcely a page goes by without an interpolated haiku-like verse (WE WEAR OURSELVES INSIDE OUT/ TRYING TO BRING THE OUTSIDE...
...know how I would use my future, but I knew that I would prefer none at all if it meant a life of mere personal success. In the end my use of the term "ruling class was not a political or economic category but rather interpression of moral disdain. It signified a very different group of people, different not in education, culture, or individual interest but rather in then conception of political society. They were the economically powerful who acted in political matters to their own personal ends. With them one could have no discussion...
Still, these "smudges on the escutcheon" only serve to throw the more honorable University actions into ironic relief, for Harvard's actions can probably be judged better than those of many other American universities. Many other schools fired professors who invited the Fifth Amendment. Harvard expressed its disdain but in most cases allowed the professors to stay on. Until more information emerges, the best measure of Harvard's actions may be a study which Riesman conducted in 1955. "I found that what really mattered was the atmosphere among the scholars. People at Harvard at least felt free to do whatever...