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BUREAUCRACY IS RARELY a tool for justice. That maxim was proved again Monday afternoon, when the Committee on House and Undergraduate Life (CHUL) took a deep breath and plunged into a swamp of parliamentary detail, emerging not with an affirmation of the rights of campus gay students but instead with a paper solution that will please only administrators embarassed by discussion of the issue...
They say--somewhere, somebody says this--that basketball is a game of inches. In the case of the Crimson varsity basketball team, that maxim is particularly true...
...Democratic Party may find an opportunity in the next four years to demonstrate the virtues of its old openheartedness when it is practiced in imaginative ways. But if the party merely reverts to a reflexive New Dealism, it may only be an opposition that proves the maxim formulated by the late social theorist Ernest Becker: "A protest without a program is little more than sentimentalism-this is the epitaph of many of the great idealisms...
...peculiarity. Captain George Walsh of the Harvard police, who has witnessed the last 30 Commencements, lends perspective to this intangible double-life: "Every one is just as great as the next, but every one is a little different from the last." And today will probably bear out Walsh's maxim; the legacies of the past will melt together with the particular character of 1980. With the help of the Happy Committee, of course...
...guns and physical violence, would protesters maintain a presence if police wanted them out? Continuous arrests, continuous gassing, even a simple counter blockade to cut off food supplies--the prospects are not good. Napoleon Bonaparte, a man with credentials in the field, once remarked, "It is an approved maxim in war, never to do what the enemy wishes you to do, for this reason alone, that he desires it." The New Hampshire police are equipped to deal with boltcutters--they have better equipment, and they are prepared...