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What the University would probably like to do most of all, in fact, is divert HTU members from their organizing efforts with a proliferation of unwinnable legal distractions. It seems likely, however, that HTU members will continue their own strategy of making new allies by providing assistance to residents of buildings involved in disputes with Harvard. If the University refuses to deviate from its obstinate failure to address legitimate resident concerns, HTU can only benefit from the resulting dissatisfaction among tenants. A tenants' revolution may be a long way off for HRE, but then again, Marie Antoinette got plenty...
...Best to divert them with tales of double-800s who are happily attending state schools and absurd geographical diversity cases that make it into Harvard. They don't believe you, but it seems to make them feel better until the topic changes to sex, by which time only the special-interest partisans are left, and you lead them out into the humidity beyond the Yard for bitter-sweet chocolate ice cream
...resurrect nuclear power's image as the "wave of the future." The Reagan administration has taken the lead in this effort; indeed, energy secretary James B. Edwards once called opponents of nuclear power "subversive elements." And the Congress has so far seemed willing to go along as economic issues divert public attention from nuclear power...
...would put under national jurisdiction the handful of social programs, like Social Security, that it contends are best administered by the federal government, while gradually returning some 43 programs to states or localities. Undertaken in the name of federalism. These steps would deal the needy a double blow. while divert attention from the suffering and unemployment induced by last year's social cuts...
Ronald Reagan, on the verge of inciting the most severe economic crisis since the Depression--read the Wall St. tickers, watch the interest rates, check the unemployment lines--proposes old remedies. Perhaps he means to divert attention from the already obvious sourness of supply cider, yet all signs indicate he really believes in his program. After the New Federalism becomes transparent, Reagan may have to resort to a familiar economic panacea, a different type of "bold stroke...