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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...great danger, because secrecy can lead to unidentified power. Power in any form can be abused, but unidentified power has a particular potential for abuse. How then can we, are we going to provide for good intelligence for our country, and yet ensure against abuse? On the one hand, we can underreact and simply assume that the relatively limited number of abuses in the past will not be repeated because we are more conscious of the problem today. On the other hand, we can overreact and so attempt to control potential abuses that we handcuff and handicap our intelligence effort...

Author: By Stansfield Turner, | Title: Accountability vs. Secrecy | 12/5/1978 | See Source »

...PAST, The Crimson's policy has been to accept any advertisement unless there is a compelling reason to reject it. The Crimson rejects out of hand any advertisements that are deceptive, discriminatory or libelous. The Playboy advertisement the Crimson refused to publish last week falls into none of these categories, and therefore should have been accepted...

Author: By Jeffrey R. Toobin, | Title: Run the Ad | 12/5/1978 | See Source »

...paintings, two cultures met. One was the "classical" Mediterranean culture that dominated his boyhood memories. Born in Greece, the son of a peripatetic Sicilian railroad engineer, De Chirico knew it well: the ocher walls of provincial towns, the neglected public gardens, the statuary and antique rubble. On the other hand, modernity was constantly thrusting its emblems into this dream: trains, clocks, surveyors' instruments, rulers, protractors. From this collision between mythic time and measured time, an extraordinary poignancy arose; and the best of these early De Chiricos have not dated...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: The Metaphysician's Last Exit | 12/4/1978 | See Source »

Kaplan admits that he has done very well financially as of late, but one finds from talking with him that he is suffering from a split personality. On the one hand, he is the kindly old schoolmaster, genuinely interested in the students who walk through his doors, concerned that his preparation material is always fresh. On the other hand, he has become a businessman far removed from Brooklyn and his humble origins. There is a push and a pull operating within...

Author: By Jonathan J. Ledecky, | Title: Horatio Alger, With Chutzpah | 12/4/1978 | See Source »

Sophomore Mark Fidler took the puck into the left corner, and after drawing the attention he is accustomed to from the Harvard defense, dropped the puck back to junior Scott Nieland at the point. Nieland's blazer motored by the glove hand of the screened Lau and into the upper corner for B.U.'s second score...

Author: By Bill Scheft, | Title: Terriers Evict Icemen From Walter Brown, 8-5 | 12/4/1978 | See Source »

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