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...promising approach is a law that would inhibit the President's warmaking powers by reinforcing the badly eroded constitutional right of Congress to declare and support a war. Several such bills have been introduced that would not apply to Viet Nam but to any future Viet Nams. Most discussed is the proposal of New York's Republican Senator Jacob Javits to limit unilateral military action by the President to specific instances where the U.S. or its armed forces have been attacked. The President could also take military action to protect American lives and property abroad or to carry...
...experience at teaching has convinced me of the basic, intrinsic curiosity of young people," she said following the official announcement of her appointment Monday. "I want to seek an environment that won't inhibit but will foster this 'need to know...
Folkman said that his research team is searching for ways to inhibit the action or prevent the production of TAF. He added that about a half-dozen other laboratories are about to join the search...
Professor Herrnstein has not been physically abused; he has been the object of a systematic effort to degrade his so as to inhibit him and others from discussing views that a small, self-appointed minority find distasteful. It is the creation of such an atmosphere that so many faculty members find objectionable. Doing this may be legal, but it is not conducive to the existence of a free university...
...Freedom. Ms. also contains a bristly, jargon-loaded attack on sexist child rearing by Author Letty Cottin Pogrebin (How to Make It in a Man's World). She roundly condemns "sex-stereotyped" toys, books, games and emotions (girls are "cuddled," boys "rough-housed") that reinforce "role rigidity" and inhibit "gender freedom." Pogrebin takes TV commercials particularly to task for imparting to children the dictum that ruggedness makes the man and prettiness the woman...