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...sectarian differences are the worst enemy of those working for progressive causes. Last week's organizing meeting of the Harvard anti-draft group showed signs that it may deteriorate into an ideological battleground between libertarians, pacifists and other sects. Discussion is important, but we hope internecine disputes will not hamper this movement...
...heart attack." Within 48 hours government bulletins said that the 79-year-old leader was recovering "normally" and that he had risen from his hospital bed to cast his own vote in the election. Khomeini issued a recorded get-out-the-vote message stressing that "my illness must not hamper anyone from effective participation in the election." He did not need to remind anyone that whoever wins the presidency, Iran's new constitution gives Khomeini effective power to remove...
...W.l.M.A.'s reckoning, business loses as much as $200 million yearly as a result of illegible records and messages. Sloppily filled-out returns hamper tax collection, while indecipherable addresses account for much of the 38 million pieces of mail that wind up in dead-letter offices at a cost of nearly $4 million a year for extra handling...
Auden's shipboard squall may have been uncharacteristic, but it should clearly be given more biographical weight than his social calendar. Yet Auden's reticence about himself may hamper all potential biographers. To his lasting credit, he believed that the dark demons could be hedged in by civility, and he acted on this belief: "A suffering, a weakness, which cannot be expressed as an aphorism should not be mentioned." His love poem "Lullaby" is beautiful and moving precisely because of its reasoned equivocations, its rational tethers on emotion...
...familiar problem--defense--may plague the Crimson. With standout blueliner Jackie Hughes off trying to land a spot with the touring U.S. Olympic troupe and sophomore Mitch Olsen out on ac pro, inexperience will hamper attempts at a fast start. Mere freshmen--Scott Sangster and Mark Fusco--join juniors Carter and Bobby Fowkes to form the top two pairings: and although the first-year men look impressive in practice, they're not Hughes and Olsen--not yet, anyway...