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...Thomas P. O'Neill III, the third candidate, running well behind Dukakis and King, has not run a radio or television advertisement since last October. With the lowest budget and the poorest showing in the caucuses, he seems more worried about establishing an organization than trying to grab wide spread support...
Ronald Hayman's biography is excruciating to read. Though the survival of Kafka's work, at lest, is consoling, all the high-school tragedy course rot about our uniquely human capacity to suffer makes it no easier to witness his writhing. Grab another beer and shake your heads. Poor Kafka. Why he clung so desperately to his father, why he endlessly romaticized him and even incorporated a piece of his shopkeeper, artist-as-vermin mentality--these are questions that Hayman knows are unanswerable. How 'bout that Gresor Samsa--transformed into a dung beetle so he kills himself with sorrow watching...
...function of public relations officials may be to deny that a clear policy towards the future of housing in the Harvard community even exists, the Craigie Arms dispute has proved the contrary to be true. A policy does exists, and it closely resembles that of any successful conglomerate. Grab the bucks while you can, and don't lose sleep over anything--or anyone--that gets...
...first to warn of the risks and difficulties of reacting so forcefully. Haig's reaction was visceral. Rather than take Kissinger's critique as an intellectual challenge to Administration policy, which it was, the Secretary of State told aides that he saw it as a power grab-a ploy by Kissinger to get his old job back...
...BEHIND the effusive rhetoric stands an economic program laden with contradictions. The economic "foundation" of which the president speaks is built from a grab-bag of materials, assembled hastily by economic architects who have been likened to voodoo practitioners. The president expects the public to believe that the formula for full employment is tight money and unprecedented tax breaks for corporations and the rich, garnished with huge defense outlays and sharp cutbacks in federal employment programs for good measure. The high priests of Reaganomics tell us tax breaks are critical because the country is short on investment supply--hence...