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...tenants have continued to criticize what they call Harvard's profit maximizing real estate policies and their harsh effects on low and moderate income residents. Harvard is now the city's largest landlord
...limits and opportunities available to women bound by traditional societies, revealing hidden heroism and behind-the-scenes sisterhood. Several of the men are appealing, but Brown does not focus on them. A few become three-dimensional and believable, such as Hercules father, sunk into passive resignation because of a harsh life. Brown avoids flat, stock figures, but her male characters are generally not as fully fleshed as her women: they are their fathers and lovers but not Montgomery's movers and shakers...
...need for subtle adjustment are now worried about the instant litany of nos produced by Ronald Reagan's White House on everything from nuclear-arms limitation to the budget. Soviet President Leonid Brezhnev did not offer anything new in his proposed missile freeze in Europe, but the quick, harsh U.S. rejection spooked the world. While the clock feet toward serious economic trouble, Reagan still drags his feet on budget compromise. "The worst mistake the President made," one of his Cabinet officers said the other morning, "was not to accept [House Speaker] Tip O'Neill's tax bill...
...attention to the rules as they should have, or they may have been well informed about the rules but did not pursue an appropriate strategy in opposing the constitution (though it is only hindsight that tells us that the strategy was inappropriate, so we ought not to be too harsh on them). But their failure does not seem adequate grounds for redoing the referendum...
...seem more in character; so would his ongoing vindication of Ted Kennedy. The Teddy question accounts for some of the book's weakest moments, with Wills at times making himself the judge in a brother-to-brother competition for the Character Award. No doubt the world has been overly harsh on Ted and easy on John, but to turn the tables around so completely--pounding relentlessly on the false authorship of Profiles in Courage--is not the solution. As Montaigne, I think observed, two wrongs don't make a right...