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...alternatives but to vote for the Partido Revolucionario Institucional (PRI), the party that has ruled Mexico without opposition for 50 years. To maintain its hegemony, the PRI minimizes political mobilization among the populace. Promises of government attention, combined with a foreign policy that even the most dedicated leftists cannot impugn, have traditionally kept activists quiet...
...earlier era, hardly a soul would have dared impugn the veracity of the Crown for fear of losing his liberty, perhaps even his head. Not today, and not the proudly blue-collar Sunday Mirror. "We take great care to get our facts right," Editor Robert Edwards stiffly informed the palace in a letter last week. He declined to apologize...
University experts agreed recently that the trial of the Gang of Four--former Chinese leader Mao Zedong's widow and three members of the Politburo during his rule--should impugn Mao's image in the minds of the Chinese people. But at the same time, they doubted that the trial represents the adoption of Western legal procedures in the People's Republic...
First, as Daniel Steiner '54, University counsel, argues, reneging on the Engelhard contract ex post facto would not only "impugn the good motives of the Engelhard Foundation," but would be poor "donor relations." Who would be willing to donate money if they knew the University would investigate the morality of their lives? President Bok said last month, "This type of thing should not be done ad hoc." This argument seems reasonable. Though it does not absolve Harvard's guilt for naming the library after Engelhard in the first place, it does, as Bok implies, point to the need...
...among Corporation members for considering changing the name," Daniel Steiner '54, general counsel for the University, said yesterday. Steiner said the Corporation opposes a name change for two reasons: members do not want to solve such a complex issue on an ad hoc basis, and changing the name would impugn the good motives of the Engelhard Foundation, which donated the library...