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...Students can choose among several alternative educational programs. Even the dropouts have a place at CRLS. They run the sub shop. The unique atmosphere at Cambridge's only high school has emerged after years of confusion and controversy over priorities and programs. Many teachers and administrators describe a new equilibrium that has emerged at CRLS, between a commitment to academic excellence and a loyalty to the multi-racial background of the diverse student body. Yet many now fear that after weathering the tough political battles of the past six years, the economic hardships from round two of proposition...
Historically, America imagined that it did not have to concern itself with the global equilibrium, because geography and a surplus of power enabled it to await events in isolation. Two schools of thought developed. Liberals treated foreign policy as a subdivision of psychiatry, conservatives as an aspect of theology. Liberals equated relations among states with human relations, emphasizing trust and unilateral gestures of good will. Conservatives saw in foreign policy the eternal struggle of good with evil, a Manichaean conflict that recognized no middle ground and could end only with total victory. Deterrence ran up against liberal ideology...
...from $1.66 billion worth of sales in 1970 to $3.68 billion in 1980. But that growth was maintained at great cost. Panic set in back in 1979 when dollar volume for the business tumbled 11%. Now, after cutbacks and corporate scrambling, the major labels have regained some of their equilibrium...
...millenia-old traditions--in all their enchanting beauty and painful inertia--and by often unyielding natural environments, constraints not so familiar to us. In such constraints, the purely modern ideals of free market and individualism may mean that some individualism flourish while may needlessly suffer their ways towards the equilibrium known as death. This is why, in the absence of any comprehensive alternative to the NIEO, we should at the very vigorously discussing, with respect to the bilateral and multilateral policies which are the status quo, the political practicality and economic costs and benefits of its key proposals (e.g. elimination...
...that disease is the will speaking through the body. Cancer is thus a single illness that manifests itself both physically and psychologically. Like medieval physicians, who thought that health was a balance of humors, he maintains that well-being is not a quality per se, but a form of equilibrium. Ergo, cancer is not a cause of unbalance but a consequence. In the final sections of the book, Zorn, 32, obviously failing in energy and spirit,' takes the advice of Job's comforter: to curse heaven and die. The Almighty is an organism, he concludes, in which...