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Howe said she thought the new policy would impel students to drive to Harvard and M.I.T. for parties, increasing risks of students driving drunk...
Constitutional qualms will probably impel the Administration, when it spells out a new policy for federal employees later this month, to make tests mandatory only for those in "sensitive" or "critical" jobs where drug use could damage public safety -- air-traffic controller, for instance. All other federal workers will most probably be asked to submit to "voluntary" tests. Critics argue that such a system would involve enough pressure so that the tests would not be truly voluntary or that they would be worthless because only those who are clean would sign...
...liberty of the United States and its allies can always be improved and one way to improve it is for the American academic elite to offer help when the country is needs it. Scholars are under no obligation to offer assistance to the CIA but should their convictions impel them to do so, their decisions should be respected no less than those of the left-leaning scholars of the 1940s who went to Washington to fight Hitlerism. What was right for Marcuse and Moore in the 1940s is no less so for Safran and Huntington in the 1980s...
...forget--but move on. These two themes impel Reagan on the eve of his trip. "I am hopeful that when people see and hear the tone of that day of remembering they will understand. I recognize that when I said once in answer to a question that the people in that cemetery, even though they were the enemy, the conquered enemy, that they too were victims of Nazism, someone interpreted that as meaning that they were as much victims as were the people in the Holocaust. No. The people in those camps have a memory that I doubt any other...
...comes from the same thing that turns the private person into a public actor: an emotional apparatus so overactive that it can surround molehills of circumstance with mountains of drama. An unusual need for affection and applause is only the most conspicuous of the traits that impel a person toward the actor's life. Not quite so visibly, the actor type tends to have a streak of emotional gluttony on or off stage or screen. The result is an inclination to inflate the clichés of existence with more dramatic heat than ordinary people can work...