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Assuming Washington opts eventually for the latter course, that still leaves the moral dilemma. Jimmy Carter's human rights policy was an attempt to come to grips with this problem. But Carter's rights framework, laudable as it was from a moral perspective, may have shunted political concerns too far aside to be practicable. with drawing all aid from the Salvadoran government--i.e. acting on the human rights ultimatum--would likely lead to the collapse of the present government. Then either the extreme Left would take over or outright anarchy would ensure: neither scenario is in the interests...

Author: By Antony J. Blinken, | Title: Voyage Into Darkness | 3/24/1983 | See Source »

...still more often) inane jumble of Harvard trivia, the diary of any student at the College would be at least as insightful. Those seeking to capture, or recapture, "the Harvard experience: are advised to invent their own Crimson ties aside, veritas must prevail Splendor and Misery is entirely the latter...

Author: By Holly A. Idelson, | Title: Harvard as Hallucinogen | 3/21/1983 | See Source »

...definitely glad now he came to Harvard and took the trouble to learn the Cleary system. He feels he made the right choice when he turned down recruiters from New Hampshire, Michigan and Notre Dame--especially the latter, which dropped its varsity hockey program this year...

Author: By Jim Silver, | Title: Skating on the Edge of the Limelight | 3/17/1983 | See Source »

...parts of education, then we should perhaps rethink the entire process. We, as Greek Orthodox, represent one-fifth of the world's some billion Christians, scattered as we are throughout Eastern Europe, the Levant, Greece, Western Europe, and the Americas (with a population of about four million in the latter). Would it not behoove a university to teach its students of our ancient traditions? And would not education help to create tolerance...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Monks | 3/15/1983 | See Source »

...vote necessary to hold seats in the Bundestag. If neither Kohl nor Vogel had won an absolute majority last Sunday, West Germans might have then been faced with a parliament in which the balance of power was held by the antinuclear, pacifist Greens. The latter would not support Kohl, and they had earlier declared that they would back Vogel only if he agreed to the complete denuclearization, military and commercial, of West Germany...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: West Germany: Kohl Wins His Gamble | 3/14/1983 | See Source »

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