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Ralph Waldo Emerson wrote that "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines." In striving to be fair to both sides, Cooper, in effect, supported the final clubs. The failed attempt of Mr. Cooper's `evenhandedness' suggests why the council must take a stand on important campus issues. The council cannot support both sides of a discrimination suit any more than the United States can support both sides in a war. Supporting both sides equally enforces the status...
...Wish you were here." Don't think of being so foolish as to start something with someone who is taking a leave of absence for a year--say in France...
...both parties must find their post-Reagan souls. The task is not easy, as their rebirth pains show. Last week the foolish notion that this could largely be sorted out by 400,000 voters in Iowa and New Hampshire was dispelled. As both parties head South, it seems likely that their infighting will continue until voters in the 48 other states get their...
...pocket-size television set, he found that the batteries were dead. Craning over Nuttle's shoulder in the staff van was Connie Snapp, the "communications director" of the campaign, who had tried to bring her candidate into Michigan and leave the traveling press behind (a maneuver so foolish that the staff man with the candidate disregarded it). What slickness the campaign has tends to undo itself out of distrust for the rest of the world, as in the duplicate tallying of caucus returns in Iowa, a state noted for its clean politics. What makes Robertson a threat...
THERNSTROM may have been thoughtless, careless, or foolish; he was not racially insensitive. Any treatment of racial or ethnic groups is difficult and awkward by nature because by setting a group apart one takes on the role of observer and judge. This role is not assumed by choice but prescribed by the subject matter. Ethnicity is a difficult subject to treat because people are afraid to confront the basic fact that people are different. Some of them are more advantaged than others by whatever accidents of circumstance place their ethnic group in their socioeconomic context. Any class on immigration...