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Here again, the main concern is not to infringe the letter to the law. There is no moral responsibility for deformation or disproportion. What sort of responsibility does a journalist have to his readers, or to history? If they have misled public opinion or the government by inaccurate information or...
UNFORTUNATELY, that is only part of the story. While Pentagon gamesmen have made their return to the fold only recently, pressure has been building for a number of years for a re-instatement of another Vietnam-era favorite, the Selective Service System. The movement has been subtle, of course: no...
Agreed that poor and working people suffer disproportionately from food price increases. Agreed that Harvard is on the explotive side of that disproportion. Agreed that eating several meatless meals a week is not so great a sacrifice. It requires less effort than training to build elementary water systems in Africa, as one student I know is doing, or working in one's home community over a long haul to build a class conscious, worker-led movement, to use another acquaintance as an example. That doesn't mean that every smaller or less politically conscious commitment...
As Watergate and related events emerged in congressional hearings and in the press, many patriotic Americans were nagged by a sense of disproportion. Crookedness and corner cutting? Yes. Crimes? No doubt?but after all, as the phrase went, "No one was killed." How could these acts, however shady or offensive...
Such theater clusters will be able to play different movies for different audiences. Bob Moscow, owner of three Atlanta houses, says: "You've got to have movies with class appeal-to blacks, racists, different age and sex groups." Most moviegoers (74%) are under 30, and blacks also attend films...