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...prove overly pessimistic. Yet it was only too obvious last week that the war's psychic scars remain tender after four decades. Statesmen who try to hasten the healing, for the most laudable of reasons, must do so cautiously and with respect for the ghosts of the past. --By Ed Magnuson. Reported by Laurence I. Barrett/Washington and William McWhirter/Bonn, with other bureaus
...speech that attracted considerable attention on Capitol Hill, Aspin told the Coalition for a Democratic Majority, "If Democrats want to spend the rest of their careers writing op-ed pieces and giving lectures at universities, then we can continue to stroke our antidefense image. But if we want to make defense policy in the White House and the Pentagon, then we had better stand for something." The party should point to some areas that need increased military spending, Aspin said, and should construct a positive defense policy around issues such as Pentagon reform. "The voters are not attracted to national...
...answer last week from New York's ebullient Mayor Ed Koch: Yes, but don't worry. Koch, in making the surprise announcement, explained that on April 1 an anonymous letter writer had threatened to dump "substantial quantities" of poisonous plutonium into the city's water supply unless all charges were dropped against Bernhard Goetz, the subway vigilante who is awaiting trial for shooting four teenagers he alleges were threatening him on a Manhattan train last December. In late April, a sample from the city's water system contained levels of cancer-causing plutonium up to 200 times as high...
...Harvard, Carswell was an editor of the Crimson and was most well-known for his op-ed, “Beating the System,” that detailed how to do well on Harvard exams without really studying. The Crimson has run this op-ed every reading period since its debut on June 12, 1950. The op-ed won Carswell the Dana Reed Prize in 1951 for excellence in undergraduate writing and provoked a seething “Grader’s Reply?...
They’re the Harvardian equivalent of a Phys-Ed All Star, but without all of the genuine enthusiasm and with a lot more self-loathing (or maybe just loathing...