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...developing his argument, he gives explicit encouragement to the pursuit of that bitch-goddess, success. As shown by the Harvard Grant Study, a long term evaluation of the adaptations to life of the "healthiest" white male members of the classes of 1939 to 1944, achieving the bitch-goddess does not necessarily correlate with important indices of growth and maturity...
TIME has learned that the cover-up included not telling investigators immediately about documents stored for five years in a filing cabinet in the J. Edgar Hoover Building. Among them were memos from Mark Felt-dubbed "one-liners" by investigators-giving Edward Miller explicit orders for break-ins and other illegal activities. The cabinet, say FBI sources, was tucked away in a corner of a little-used public room of the building and only came to light when a low-level employee suggested that it was an eyesore and should be thrown out. But it was opened first...
...Club's leaders seem to have read the proposed constitution quite selectively. They know exactly what their objections are to the section on minority representation; and they have combed the section on finances so carefully as to include ramifications which are not even explicit in the wording. But the statement in the handbill that "(o)nce the government assumes power it will be impossible to change" displays a shocking ignorance of the section on amendment. Furthermore, the handbill's exhortation to "(v)ote NO this week, and then work for a new government" is a wonderfully ingenious dismissal...
...Harvard-Radcliffe Gay Students Association does not condemn the constitution simply because lesbians and gay men were denied representation. The Association objects to the failure of the Convention to establish explicit criteria for determining what groups qualify for special representation. The Association believes that the Convention debate was conducted in an atmosphere of power politics, and not with a genuine concern for fairness to minority or disadvantaged groups...
...down," complained one saddened letter writer to the pro-Tory Evening Standard. Declared the Bishop of Truro, Graham Leonard: "If you accept the public life, you must accept a severe restriction on your personal conduct." After some of his fellow clergymen complained that he had been a bit too explicit, Leonard said that he was merely praying that Margaret "should be given the strength to make the right judgment...