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When Dean of the Law School James Vorenberg '49 prefaced a question to Law with the statement, "This may sound like a question about abortion but it isn't." Law replied, "Thank...
...bundles of money, and we don't have all that we need. But we're committed to doing something: Look at all the fancy models and architect's proposals we've commissioned. And look--a new building for North, underground tunnels uniting Cabot, duplex suites, a whole new look. Isn't it pretty? Isn't it nice...
...sharpest areas of disagreement came on the emotional issue of abortion. In attempting to tackle the question of whether the decision should be a matter of personal choice, the President asserted, "Isn't that what a murderer is insisting on, his or her right to kill someone?" Mondale argued that abortion was a difficult moral dilemma in every individual case, one in which Government should play no role. "Does every woman in America have to present herself before some judge picked by Jerry Falwell to clear her personal judgment?" he asked, raising as he did three times...
...There are moments, though, when the impossibility of his ambitions comes burning through in a way his talent never does, and then he becomes not only humble but abject. "Know what we did, Lucy?" he asks his wife, after their marriage has shredded. "We spent our whole lives yearning. Isn't that the God damndest thing...
...ISN'T EASY for the College to arrange housing for 6000 undergraduates. Each year students take time off, others return, many request inter-House transfers, and off-campus students want to enter the Houses. Administrators maintain that they can do little in the short run to alleviate the crunch, because there is only so much flexibility in they system. They've got a point. And that's precisely the problem...