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Alan Greenspan, economic consultant and former chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers: "Propping up failing companies with Government loans delays the shift of resources into more productive ventures. Policies focused on protecting jobs in moribund industries must eventually fail and, in the end, destroy more jobs than they save...
Antony J. Blinken and Errol T. Louis criticize Harvard students in the most self-righteous manner (3/14/83), yet fail to examine why there was such a great reaction to the cancellation and reinstatement of Bloom County. When I want to write about the Core Curriculum I will write to President Bok. When I want to write about the arms control debate I will write to President Reagan. Harvard students are not apathetic and the indictment made by Blinken and Louis that they are was done in a less than responsible manner. Martia Reichel...
...when President Efrain Rios Montt ordered the execution of six suspected terrorists, ignoring a last-minute papal plea for clemency. In a message to Guatemalan Bishop Prospero Pernados del Barrio, John Paul confirmed that he still planned to visit Guatemala but condemned the executions. Said the Pope: "I cannot fail to think with immense pain of the recent executions that have taken place in your nation and to invoke divine mercy on all these deceased of this country of Central America, and in particular for those who have suffered a violent death." He hoped that his visit would help promote...
...complicated route to reach their rooms. The two wheelchair-accessible rooms in Quincy are singles, meaning disabled students cannot have roommates. Wheelchair-accessible rooms in Currier House are also exclusively singles. For disabled students, already set apart from the Harvard community because of chauvinism from the many students who fail to understand their problems, living in a single aggravates feelings of isolation. The disabled often have only minimal contact with other students...
...spate of new proposals would reverse the decline in math and science teaching--both in numbers of teachers and quality of those entering the profession--by retraining teachers from other fields and by making teaching jobs more attractive. Although the new measures are to be lauded, they still fail to deal with the reason for the shortage, namely, the ridiculously low salary level for teachers...