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Beyond my grammar-school instinct which says to me that telling on people is just no good, it is my strong belief that no real progress will come of the administration punishing these two people. They will likely only get more angry and less tolerant, and they will not reflect on what they have done...
...nobody's man but his own, determined that justice be done...From the White House point of view, he is no improvement on Cox. He is often even more tenacious and less tolerant of anything that stands in his way. A pragmatic and informal man with a prosecutor's instinct for the kill, Jaworski is not so interested as Cox was in legal theory and lengthy staff discussions on the meaning of the law. Once his cases are sound, he wants to get them quickly to court." --March...
...over-crowded ranks of the party-starved masses. I don't think that a riotous keg bash will serve our purposes. My proposal is more surgical, and I do not carelessly invoke medical imagery. This campus suffers from a malignant tumor. We are being consumed by a rampant competitive instinct...
This observation is by no measure a new one. We all know that we are a competitive bunch. Most acknowledge that this instinct, which admittedly has contributed to our success, is a strong factor in shaping this school's environment. We all should have recognized this characteristic of Harvard life when we decided to attend. However, the pathological behavior which I have witnessed in the past six months lies far beyond the realm of tolerance...
...know. But if I had to go with my very inner instinct, I think it will resonate well because Europe knows what it is to lose freedom of the press. But if the notion succeeds that the movie is glorifying pornography, that could derail the whole idea...