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Instead of preparing measured, judicious responses to Carter's gaffes the GOP has proved content the last two weeks to go with the Big Mo. It has allowed the ultra-conservative elements to exert influence disproportionate to their support among the electorate. Former president Gerald R. Ford was introduced by a film whose soundtrack featured the melancholy ode "What I Did for Love." In his speech, he insisted he was not an elder statesman; he pledged that he would be active in campaigning to defeat Carter while failing to mention whether he would try to move the party back...
Perhaps. The expressions of good will are reminiscent of the mood of optimism when Vance and Brzezinski were setting out at the beginning of Carter's Administration. Muskie will probably have to exert the full force of his formidable personality if the Secretary of State is once again to assume his proper role as the principal spokesman for U.S. foreign policy...
Pssst... Don't tell anyone, but Princeton first singles player Jay Lapidus sweats. You'd never know it if you watch him from the dim confines of the Palmer-Dixon stands, but if you get down close you can see that the Tiger ace does in fact exert at least a little effort...
What Lapidus doesn't do is exert himself needlessly. He only pushes himself far enough to win--which he does often, and consistently. Yesterday came Crimson number one Don Pompan's turn to lose, and although he put up a creditable battle, came away with nothing but blisters and a 7-6, 6-2 loss...
...Reflections on Academic Freedom," seems to contradict his earlier positions and split moral hairs. While arguing against cost-benefit analysis in the Harberger case, he argued for it in last spring's letters. In his "Reflection on Boycotts," Bok said that when universities refuse "to take collective stands or exert economic pressure, [they] are guided by a belief that any benefits to be achieved by such actions will often be out-weighed by the resulting risks to academic functions." "At times," says one Faculty member, "Bok gets so caught up in his own rhetoric that he fails to realize what...