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...Illustrate"; "Be specific"; etc.? They mean it. The illustrations, of course, need not be singularly relevant; but they must be there. If Vague Generalities are anathema, sparkling chips of concrete scattered throughout your blue book will have you up for sainthood. Or at least Dean's list, Name at least the titles of every other book Hume wrote; don't just say Medieval cathedrals, name mine think up a few specific examples of "contemporary decadence" like Natalie Wood. If you can't come up with titles, its a few sharp metaphors of your own; they at least have the solid...
...course for modern liberalism. I am devoted to the old-fashioned kind that says the best society is that which maximizes each individual's freedom to live according to her or his own values. Many who style themselves liberals today have exchanged that belief for adherence to a long list of particular values they think all men and women of good will must share. In that sense, they are indistinguishable form the Moral Majority and, precisely, "ill-liberal" according to the original definition of the word. Like the Moral Majority, they feel justified in pushing each of their beliefs...
...since the Great Depression. Saddled with shaky loans to oil drillers, farmers and foreign governments, major banks suffered a 30% decline in profits during the first three quarters of 1984, and 79 institutions failed. In addition, Government regulators put 817 of the 14,700 U.S. banks on their "problem list." The worst problem was Continental Illinois, which started the year as the seventh largest U.S. bank. It would have collapsed under its bad loans if the U.S. Government had not provided a $4.5 billion bailout in July. Federal regulators took control of the bank, installed new management and fired most...
High on the bankers' 1984 worry list were their loans to Latin American nations, which staggered under a $350 billion debt burden. In June representatives of the debtor countries huddled in Cartagena, Colombia, raising fears that they would form a cartel to bargain collectively for easier terms. Warned Colombian President Belisario Betancur: "We hear the far-off thunder of violent drums. We feel the winds of storms." Despite such rhetoric, most of the debtors chose negotiation over confrontation. Mexico persuaded the banks to stretch out its payments on $48 billion in loans, originally due between now and 1990, over...
...this affair were several dozen Boston "dignitaries" several dozen Harvard deans and administrators and about 15 students. It would be petty for me to mention that the President, Vice-President, Treasurer, Secretary and most of the executive board of the Black Students Association were not included on the guest list, as well as the entire board of the Afro-American Cultural Center and the entire steering committee of the Association of Black Radcliffe Women. To mention these unexplainable omissions would detract from the point that Dr. S. Coutner insulted all Black students and all Harvard students by hosting this exclusive...