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...called another Democrat who plans to vote against NAFTA. I hardly needed to lecture him about economics; he has postgraduate degrees galore. Yet he ) sounded almost blase. The gist of his comment was that the past 12 years had been a time of high living on the backs of the working guy -- one defeat for labor after another -- so it was time to let labor win one. Congress would defeat NAFTA, he said. The President of Mexico would lose his job. They'd elect a new one, and in a year or two Canada, Mexico and the U.S. would negotiate...
...gist of Jendi Reiter's argument ("A Gentleman's 'B+'", March 15, p. 2) seems to be that Harvard students (including herself, we are to presume) are so wonderful that we, your instructors, should give you all high grades in order to make you happy and to help you get the good jobs you deserve. Her remarks, lacking even at iota of the self-critical altitude which Harvard should (but often doesn't) instill in its students, closely resemble the arguments put forth by Sean Becker of the U.C. during March 11's IOP panel discussion on grade inflation...
...gist of Collor's disagreement with his former Environment Secretary goes right to the core of the Rio summit agenda. Lutzenberger refused to endorse Collor's version of "sustainable development" -- the notion that preservation of Brazil's rain forests and other natural resources is compatible with economic growth. The interim Secretary, a nuclear physicist named Jose Goldemberg, is a strong advocate of this vision of controlled development...
Electric Love Hogs seem to have taken the gist of every stupid heavy metal song, absurdly exalted it and called in it their own. Electric Love Hogs never challenges or confuses its listeners with musical or lyrical originality but instead soothes them with the familiar sounds of their favorite commercial metal stars...
Further supporting the "reporter as virus" thesis, and serving as the impetus for this correction of the record, the gist of your erroneous information was spread by the Gazette in their March 13 issue, without an attempt to confirm its accuracy. (Assuming the Gazette was otherwise correct, Harvard suffered no losses due to this most recent viral nuisance.) Joseph G. Sharp Manager, Facilities and Administrative services