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...these troubles have been exacerbated by G.M.'s rather stiff response to Ralph Nader. In the latest joust, a group of lawyers backed by Nader in the "Project for Corporate Responsibility" bought a dozen G.M. shares and suggested that a series of consumer-oriented resolutions be put to a vote at the annual meeting. G.M. brusquely refused. To G.M.'s chagrin, the Securities and Exchange Commission then ordered it to put two of the resolutions to a vote. One would add three public representatives to G.M.'s board; the other would create a committee, partially made...
...very dangers of heroin appeal to young users. Youth is a time of chance-taking. The bold can persuade themselves that they are immune from the risk of addiction. To the boldest, heroin offers the same thrilling opportunity as Russian roulette: a joust with death...
...CRIMSON and the Harvard Independent have begun to joust in earnest though neither has given a clue to its readers...
...Your commendable "peaceful revolutionary" from Brown, Ira Magaziner [July 4], may have some difficulty if he plans to "joust with the authorities at Oxford's Balliol College." He had better be prepared for a group of dons whose social, economic and academic perspectives easily match the boldness of his own ideas. The doctoral program Magaziner will follow, supposedly so traditional, can be a study of almost anything, so long as he finds a supervisor who takes him seriously. He may discover that there is no shock value at all in a "sweeping cross-disciplinary plan of his own design...
Magaziner, who wrote his senior honors thesis on "The Decline of Metaphysical Religion and Values in the West," is now preparing to joust with the authorities at Oxford's Balliol College. They expect him to follow a traditional doctoral program; he wants a sweeping, cross-disciplinary plan of his own design. Having already shaken up a 200-year-old university, Magaziner is not much intimidated by one that is three times older. Meantime, back at Brown, his impact can be measured by a widely quoted campus graffito: "Ira, please see me-God." "You come...