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...report has met with unexpected opposition from both HRAAA and other overseers. Discussion of the report has been tabled twice, as the University refuses to have it come to a vote lest it fail...
...Hungarian border. In Poland the Communist Party Politburo marked the 50th anniversary of the 1939 Nazi-Soviet pact -- whose secret protocols resulted in the partition of Poland at the onset of World War II -- by denouncing the agreement as a violation of "sanctified moral norms of international coexistence." Lest anyone miss the point, Polish opposition leader Lech Walesa spelled it out in an interview with an Italian newspaper: "We are setting out . . . to return to the prewar situation when Poland was a capitalist country...
...lest you think I was (and still am) a lush,let me tell you that I managed to do reasonablywell in all my first-year classes--although no onehanded me a gold star for attendance. Oneclass--contemporary American history with AlanBrinkley--inspired me to read pages ofnon-required reading. Of course, Harvard sentBrinkley away the following year. He spent toomuch time with students and too little writingbooks, or something like that. So much foracademic inspiration. I signed up to be a Govmajor (Big Mistake...
...other constituencies. In Have Thine Own Way, Lord, sinners no longer ask Jesus to wash them "whiter than snow," because of objections from blacks. In Wesley's O for a Thousand Tongues to Sing, editors originally dropped a verse proclaiming the spiritual uplifting of the "dumb" and the "lame," lest the handicapped take umbrage. They later restored the words, but suggest in a footnote that the stanza may be omitted...
Moreover, even at Harvard, intellectual pursuits are often frowned-upon. It is unseemly to work "too hard," lest one become a geek, and talking with professors--often the best way to learn--is thought of as "brown-nosing." Much admired is the student who can get a "B" without studying, which detracts from more important pastimes such as playing a sport, partying oneself into senselessness, or watching TV and gossiping the night away...