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...current Expos director's "solution"--to shoot down the birds that can sing, and also teachers of proven excellence and compassion--is a solution that will inflict totally unnecessary harm on Harvard/Radcliffe freshmen if he continues to prevail...
...Again, this is highly speculative. In the past, Harvard has adopted policies which were not popular with conservative corporate executives--for example, abolishing ROTC during the Vietnam War, or refusing to fire a tenured faculty member and former communist during the McCarthy period. In short, we think the financial harm from taking aprincipled stand has been greatly exaggerated...
...ambassador, Adolph Dubs. The handling of the incident by the Afghans and the Soviet advisers on the scene he found appalling and he spoke out. Yet even in that tragic tangle there is the dilemma of courage. The White House does not believe that the Soviets deliberately intended to harm the ambassador. It was simply their brutish sense of how strong-and, yes, courageous-men respond in a crisis. Crush the offenders and all those...
...agents to maintain valuable contacts with businessmen, scholars, journalists and other sources. As serious is the possibility of the magazine's incorrectly identifying an agent. Said one senior CIA official: "Whether or not the people they mention are with the agency, they've done these people great harm." Added CIA Director Stansfield Turner: "I also wonder where they get their money. It would help if those who worry about CIA activities would direct the same attention to those who work so hard to tear us apart...
...power alone, its potential capacity to unite people and move them toward either belligerent or peaceful goals, the slogan rates as one of man's most ingenious and economical verbal inventions. So the ubiquity of slogans in modern times is understandable, and it probably does more good than harm. Still, there is reason to wonder whether the use-and abuse-of slogans has not at last resulted in a period of fatigue, a sort of slump that might be called sloganosis...