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...December 1968 essay, he wrote that the members of the Harvard Corporation were marked by a "comparative absence of scientific and scholarly qualification...
After reading Newbold's essay, I was about to write a scathing letter asking why the general waited so long to make his views known. Then I realized that I never made my views known either. I strongly opposed the Iraq invasion, but like many others, I chose inaction. I stayed silent and let others protest. I'll never know whether I could have made a difference, but I regret not having tried...
...example is, in “Pinkerton,” in “El Scorcho,” two lines in the song are actually taken from someone else’s essay in my Expos class...
...climate change. Glaciers receding? My house is built where a glacier once was. The same is true for much older structures. Trying to stop Earth's climate from changing is as realistic as trying to stop Earth from spinning. Gordon Otto Calgary, Canada Iran and the Bomb In his essay "Today tehran, tomorrow the world" [April 3], Charles Krauthammer stereotyped Iranians as followers of an "extreme and fanatical ideology" who would wield nuclear power recklessly. He argues that while good sense has kept other rogue nations from using the atom bomb, Iran, "undeterred by the usual calculations of prudence...
...Government Out of Touch Re "A Strange Kind of Revolution" [April 3], author Jacques Marseille's essay on the French protests over the youth labor law: Among the many problems that France has, one is an élitist government. Too few of the ministers during the past 30 years have come up through the ranks from an ordinary background. They form a modern-day monarchical court. The buildings they work in are palatial, the apartments they live in are sumptuous, and the schools they attend to reach such lofty heights are prestigious. Their grasp of the realities of the average...