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This time around DA is again targeting the Democratic platform as a lever to speed "real social change in the U.S." Harrington disputes the common assumption that DA will be "playing the old game of drafting a fine program and then throwing it in the wastepaper basket the day after the Convention," arguing that the conventional wisdom doesn't hold for next year because "the roof is caving in on the American economy...
...most elections all you need to know to vote is how to pull a lever or scratch an X. Not so in Cambridge, where ability to count is required, and a master's degree in logic encouraged...
Shernoff says that the nonconfinement clause is only one lever that unscrupulous adjusters may use to squeeze customers out of their benefits. Another device is the common requirement that insured people fully disclose their medical histories. In one California case, a Shernoff client with a back injury had been denied coverage because she failed to report that she had rhinitis and amenorrhea. Rhinitis is the medical term for a runny nose; amenorrhea means that she had an erratic menstrual cycle. Shernoff settled that case...
...training boxes, where they are confronted by three portholes. Purified air blows from two of the openings; the third assails them with a mix of air and amyl acetate, an odorous chemical that smells like bananas. When the gerbils correctly identify the odorous porthole by pressing a lever, they are rewarded with a drink of water. That's a big deal for the gerbils, who hail from the deserts of Mongolia. If they make a wrong choice, the portholes slam shut and the gerbils have 30 seconds to ponder their mistakes before the next olfactory assault...
...much thought and agony. I am as of this day withdrawing all support for the Stephen Biko Memorial Fund. For I believe that any tactic which substantially damages the chances of accomplishing the long-term goal should not be supported. Since the Biko Fund takes from students the financial lever--perhaps the only one left after failed marches, failed petitions, and failed discussion--it should not be supported. Support for such a Fund should come only after the Harvard Corporation has adopted an investment policy which clearly supports the withdrawal from South Africa of all American corporations in which...