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...well-developed relationship between Harvard and Washington, D. C. Many other Harvard professors and administrators have accepted high government positions. In foreign policy, the list includes former U. N. ambassador Daniel P. Moynihan, and presidential advisor McGeorge Bundy, architect of the U. S. strategy in Vietnam. Similar connections exist in domestic social and economic policy. As Secretary of Labor, John Dunlop designed and administered a wage-price freeze that somehow was a lot better at holding down wages than prices, and Moynihan was one of Nixon's main advisors on domestic affairs...
...French literature at all. He was an unsavory fellow: perceived as a political turncoat; ungrateful towards his staunchest friends; a convicted Nazi collaborator. In an epigraph to his pamphlet called Mea Culpa, Celine taunted, "There are still a few hatreds that I lack. I am sure that they exist." Hatred is a distasteful and difficult subject...
CHUL's decision, while commendable for providing a temporary solution to the problem of vacancies that presently exist, fails to establish a firm policy to be applied, if future vacancies should arise. Will sophomores be allowed to fill those vacancies as soon as they occur, or will the transfer freeze still apply? CHUL will clearly be imposing an undue hardship on students if they have to wait for the monthly CHUL meetings for approval of their desired transfer on a case by case basis. However, such a situation can only be avoided if CHUL finally does what it should have...
Fisher called the high percentage of students entering law school "an astounding number," adding, "Our counseling would suggest that they would want some other kind of school, but another kind of school doesn't exist...
...claim of neutrality is actually a mask for a value judgement: if Yom Kippur were judged to be a pressing enough matter, then it would be obvious that a significant problem exists, one that ought to be dealt with respectfully--and openly. The implied condescension in the current policy becomes apparent by considering a rough analogy, viz. inviting a group of people from another culture to stay at your house, and then treating, not their quirks, but a fundamental aspect of their way of life, as though it didn't exist. David B. Ackerman...