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...supporters see no harm in being practical, however. Asa S. Knowles, Northeastern's president, calls co-op a "distinctly American philosophy of higher education," and he adds: "We attract the student who is career-oriented and hungry for practical education...
That brave cameramen are constantly in harm's way was again demonstrated by Photographer Ennio Iacobucci, whose pictures accompany Halstead's this week. Iacobucci found himself trapped in Quang Tri with 80 U.S. advisers. The North Vietnamese barrage was so intense that rescue helicopters could not get in for days. The only newsman still with the group, Iacobucci phoned periodic reports of the battle's progress back to Saigon. The Italian freelance also called friends to say goodbye-prematurely, as it turned out. Helicopters finally were able to take the advisers and Iacobucci to Danang. "In four...
...there any harm in having the two characters meet, especially if it makes for better drama? Unfortunately there is. It was basic to Elizabeth's character and to her politics that she would not and could not see Mary. Brave enough to do anything else-"I am more afraid of making a fault in my Latin," she once said, "than of the kings of Spain, France, Scotland, and the whole House of Guise, and all of their confederates" -she was unequal to the task of confronting the woman she knew she might have to kill...
...began with the proposition that individuals and institutions discharge their moral responsibilities not by avoiding contamination or controversy (for that is, in any event, a futile quest), but by seeking effective means of reducing the social harm we inflict on one another. Divestitute of corporate stocks, we found, does not advance this goal. It is not likely to change a company's behavior. Indeed, a day or so after the sale has taken place, (a) the price of the stock--management's major concern--is back to normal (the historical evidence makes this quite clear): (b) a few alert investors...
...relationship to violence." The Godfather, he believes, provides that kind of illumination by brilliantly contrasting the Corleone family's sunny private life and its brutally dark professional life. Critic Robert Hatch rejects that view, calling the movie a "chronicle of corruption, savage death and malignant sentimentality" that wreaks harm by forcing the viewer "to take sides in a situation that is totally without moral substance." It was chilling, he says, "to hear an audience roar its approval when a young gangster on 'our' side blew the brains out of two gangsters on 'their' side...