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...Third World students and white students show no real interest, but the Foundation offers a ready excuse for those members of the community who wish to rebut the notion that Harvard does nothing for its minorities. The presence of the Foundation furnishes a convenient excuse for those of this ilk to shunt aside minority concerns and avoid confronting the issue head...
...they can beat down his rivals, the communists, for that would be good for Ronald Reagan, and good for business. But his support of capitalism and his opposition to communism are obviously not predicated on support for common people's happiness; that is something he and others of his ilk do not support anywhere, especially in this country, for it can be very, very bad for profits...
...things (unconsciously and otherwise) through all manner of physical movement and facial gymnastics. Such matters, made widely familiar by pop sociology, anthropology and psychology, have become the stuff of common conversation. Michael Korda's Power! How to Get It, How to Use It, like other books of this ilk, is mainly a primer in how to manipulate others by a cold-blooded control of nonverbal signals that occur commonly in the workaday world: for example, how executives signal their style and presumptions of power by the clothes they choose and the way they arrange their office furniture...
...economist who became President represented a suspiciously Western, secular influence in the revolutionary government. It made no difference that his father, the late Ayatullah Seyed Nasrollah Banisadr, had been an Islamic leader revered by Khomeini. Supporting the suspicions about the deposed President, Khomeini declared last week, "Banisadr and his ilk are Muslims, but their Islam somehow leaves room for U.S. domination." He also charged that Banisadr had urged him "to cashier the government" in his desire "to make a dictator...
...Screw is not just a product; it also is a publication that contains certain opinions, however warped they may be. For this reason, the courts have granted freedom of the press to Screw and its ilk. It ill becomes The Crimson to be less tolerant than the courts...