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...danger of poltical and ethnic militancy to a great university is that they distort the quality of those delicate relationships and sensibilities that sustain a great university. Indeed, those who adopt militancy as a style of behavior within a university do so precisely because they, for whatever reasons, no longer comprehend the behavioral requisites of a great university. Thus for them a new raison d'etre becomes imperative: the logic of militant confrontation runs its civility-destroying course...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ETHNIC MILITANCY | 10/1/1975 | See Source »

...Nixon might try to obscure his Watergate transgressions by tampering with the materials? Indeed it was. The brief cited several things, including the infamous 18½-minute gap in one Watergate tape and the misleading tape transcripts that Nixon had issued while President, as indications of his "propensity to distort the historical record." Congress had acted quite "rationally," the brief declared, in perceiving that Nixon was "not a trustworthy custodian" of the tapes and documents...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: Untrustworthy Custodian? | 9/22/1975 | See Source »

...Measures to "promote the efficiency, growth and stability" of commodity markets by establishing a "consumer-producer forum" for every key commodity, starting with copper. Kissinger emphasized, however, that the U.S. opposed price fixing for it would "distort the market, restrict production and waste resources for everybody...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: UNITED NATIONS: Marshall Plan for the Third World | 9/15/1975 | See Source »

Leach's study does not support Mr. Bohn's claims. Clearly, I did not distort the facts presented by Leach, nor did I misuse social science research...

Author: By Peter J. Ferrara, | Title: A Reply | 5/13/1975 | See Source »

Goldman warns that the University's departments should be cautious that certain corporations don't distort their focus. He says it would be unfortunate if the East Asian Studies Center grew where corporations giving money to it are involved and not in other areas. "You can't be ethnocentric, you must study the whole context," Goldman says. "It would be awkward to set up a study center just for Kuwaiti studies...

Author: By James Cramer, | Title: Harvard Goes International | 3/26/1975 | See Source »

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