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...suspension of Alan Balsam, Sylvia Gallagher, and John Shaffer is one more example of the antidemocratic nature of Harvard management. When kitchen workers walk out in protest against a threat to fire their shop steward, Harvard suspends three union leaders, threatens the rest; and says that it is being generous not to fire everybody. Harvard acts like a dictator, as if it thinks it owns its workers. These anti-democratic practices must be stopped. Harvard should let Alan, Sylvia, and John go back to work, with full pay, and erase the suspensions from their records...
Bruce-Biggs concurs: "The neo-Malthusians would have us be more generous and unselfish and less greedy and materialistic. No decent man would disagree, but are they more persuasive than Confucius, Buddha, Isaiah, or Jesus Christ? Have computers greater authority than Scripture...
Some detractors regard Carter's ambition as exceeding even the generous quota to be expected of any presidential candidate. In Carter's case, there is an almost total humorlessness and an implacable quality to the pursuit of all his goals. Says a Georgia government official who knows him well: "He's got rock-hard, iron-hard confidence. He's like twisted steel cable inside." Trying to reassure an audience in Green Bay, Wis., that he was not dangerously ambitious, Carter pointed out that he had not always wanted to be President. Said he, in all seriousness: "When...
...White House official who appears to have been a generous source for The Final Days is former Counsel J. Fred Buzhardt, who emerges as a hero in the book after criticism elsewhere for hangdog loyalty long after he was aware of Nixon's involvement...
...Gurion in 1961 condemned South Africa as a "deplorable regime of racial discrimination." When Israel later decided to give money to black liberation movements, the Pretoria government retaliated by blocking contributions to Israel from South Africa's 130,000 Jews, who are, after their U.S. counterparts, the most generous overseas Jewish group...