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...games to further their own ends. And even more like revolutionaries, they have not hesitated to break the rules of these games when it has suited their ends. They have not been professors at Harvard--they have been playing "the professor game," and their cynicism has led them to disregard University regulations and standards of good faith. They have violated the one condition Harvard placed upon their work: that they not use undergraduates as subjects for drug experiments...
...United States spend billions to develop this first-class, first strike weapon in the name of deterrence? The Pentagon might have been exploiting the Soviet threat to get the latest technological wonder; the power of the military-industrial complex feeds on fear. Yet this would indicate a terrifying disregard for the national defense and an unparalleled waste of tax dollars...
There may be other issues in the Chicago election in addition to the fact that Democrat Harold Washington, 60, an undistinguished Congressman with a disconcerting disregard for filing income tax returns happens to be black, and that Republican Bernard Epton, 61, an equally undistinguished former state legislator happens to be white. But it was getting increasingly hard to find any. The racial partisanship that dragged the mayoral race to a new low last week removed any doubt that next Tuesday's election was, alas, likely to turn out to be essentially a black-and-white matter...
...coming, like a wave out at sea," Dan Rather says, a new attack on the "media elite." Then, with a carefree disregard for consistency of metaphor, he describes such criticism as "the old salami in a new package." Journalists like Rather are always being asked by unsympathetic critics, "Who elected you?" The most plausible answer is that journalists are first appointed by their employers, then get confirmed by the public insofar as they and their employers are regarded as accurate, fair and trustworthy. As the network with the most watched news program on TV, CBS can consider itself elected under...
...concept of civil disobedience, of demonstrations against authority, has people acting in a way that would not have been considered patriotic or acceptable in the past. It accelerated in the Viet Nam War era, and now there is more disregard for the law. It is not as antisocial as it was to evade taxes." The American Institute of Certified Public Accountants, which has an obvious involvement in the problem, is openly alarmed. "Honest taxpayers are bearing an ever increasing burden because of the growing number of citizens who are not paying their full tax," it said in a report issued...