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...side would be free to raise matters of concern to it, and we would take measures to stop those things that worry the U.S. But of course we would also hope that in response the U.S. would stop the activities that it has launched against our country. We would insist on reciprocity...
Reagan may not have a racist bone in his body, as his aides insist, but his philosophical antipathy to federal activism, whether it takes the form of social spending or statutory redress, is at odds with the kind of government leadership that blacks have come to expect. His budget cuts were felt most immediately by the nation's poor, who are disproportionately black. He flirted with the idea of weakening the Voting Rights Act until a political fire storm changed his mind, and until recently was criticized for lax enforcement of fair housing laws. William Bradford Reynolds, the Assistant...
...allow its basic industries to atrophy and still remain a major industrial and military power? McDonald's now employs more workers than U.S. Steel. Can such trends continue? Business leaders in the older sectors of the economy insist that they cannot. Says John Nevin, chairman of Firestone Tire & Rubber: "It's utter nonsense that we are going to become a high-tech and a service economy. The high-tech companies have more manufacturing offshore than here. The idea that we can have an economy by selling hamburgers to each other is absurd...
Gandhi represents 20th century politics' closest brush with sainthood. Yet in this season of celebrating his character, little attention has been given to his context. Or rather, the wrong attention. The usual objection raised against Gandhi is: What would he have done against France? It is important to insist on the right question, because to say that Gandhi would have failed against the radical and unique evil of Nazi Germany is to say merely that he would have failed against history's exception (and done no worse than much of a heavily armed and decidedly non-pacifist Europe...
...titles of six poems in a row, even an occasional date. This, son, makes for interesting (if effortless) reading: and that is what gets A's. Underline them, capitalize them, inset them in outline from: be sure we don't miss them. Why do you think all exams insist at the top. "Illustrate", "Be specific"; etc? They mean it. The illustrations needn't of course be singularly relevant; but they must be there. If Vague Generalities are anathema, sparkling chips of concrete scattered through your bluebook will have you up for sainthood. Or at least Dean's List, Name...