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Lange's snub of the U.S. came after he received a letter from Australian Prime Minister Bob Hawke, in which Hawke implied that New Zealand's antinuclear stand could harm the alliance. Responded Lange: "The policy is not anti-American. It is not antialliance. It is antinuclear." Washington's concern is that New Zealand's position might send a divisive message to other U.S. allies...
...educational values from a disgust with parental complaints assignments of those students now randomly housed. If we could only spread out the pain. So to speak, no one could argue that he or she was unfairly treated Moreover no definitive proof exists showing that the present system causes any harm. Last year Associate Registrar Lay Halfond Mather House Semor Lutor Steven Epsterm prepared a report chock full of numbers supposedly indicating the deleterious effects of the present system. Master Bossert and others who know immediately denounced the report which contained few if any statistically significant figures Indeed in 1969 Harvard...
Opponents to some form of random system cite the all-American, freedom-of-choice amendment to support the current system yet one wonders if, in this case, this principle is doing more harm than good. It seems we no longer have an ideal free-choice system anyway, since anyone wanting to avoid a heavily "stereotyped" House now has very few choices...
...military officers were forced into retirement. "I am afraid that some of our old comrades have this fear: after a generation of socialism and Communism, it is unacceptable to spout some capitalism," said Deng in a speech published in the Chinese press on New Year's Day. "It cannot harm us. It cannot harm...
...Freedom of association is a good. Equal opportunity is a good. To impose membership rules on the Final clubs is to sacrifice the former. Not to impose them is to sacrifice the latter. Stevens and Harvard College, in the absence of any showing that denial of equal opportunity does harm in this case, have determined that freedom of association must be sacrificed. The fact that many who share their belief in equal opportunity also value free association highly, makes their action one that prompts me to turn Mr. Stevens' charge of "a narrow world view" back upon him. E.L. Patelle