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...admitted to Harvard come here which is more than any other university in the land." Evans added "Since 98 percent graduate, we must be doing something right to keep them here." Until those statistics change, he said the admissions office will "take surveys like this one with a grain of salt...
...public policy, especially in the last eight years, has neither been consistent nor persistent. President Carter attempted overtures and embargoes, all of which failed, while President Reagan has concentrated on rhetoric and containment. Both followed a policy of switches Carter went forward on SALT and backwards on Afghanistan and grain, while Reagan has vacillated between calling the Soviets an "evil empire" and attempting negotiations, demanding toughly that the requirements of treaties be observed while at the same time revamping embargoes by keeping economic ties sullenly open. Meanwhile, the high-level means of diplomacy in the United States have dwindled...
Last week the House approved a radical approach to the problem. By a vote of 325 to 91, it passed a bill that would for the first time pay dairy farmers not to produce milk. In the past, such "paid diversions" have been offered to grain and cotton farmers. The bill provides for payments to farmers of $10 for each 100 lbs. of milk (about 12 gal.) not produced, up to 30% of their average annual output. The price-support level for milk-the price at which the Government agrees to buy up surpluses-would be trimmed immediately from...
Admittedly, First Affair goes a bit too far. Besides running the gamut of simplistic emotions and stiff, unbelievable actions, CBS somehow managed to depict every known Harvard stereotype. But from a public relations standpoint, even the overwrought tale of King's adventures carries a grain of truth. The admissions office has no control on how students do, how they behave, what relationships they have once they get here. Merely predictors, they can only form a Harvard class, not lead it through...
...rights, the American response has been erratic--circumspect at best, incomprehensible at worst. These vacillations testify to the frustrating difficulty of enacting an effective campaign untainted with open hypocrisy. Moreover, the economic costs of some tactics have thwarted their effectiveness in "punishing" the Soviets. For example, the unsuccessful 1980 grain embargo ultimately hurt American farmers more than the Soviet government; Moscow simply bought the grain from others...