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...want these wonderful things the government provides, but we think they should be provided somehow other than through a monopoly government," Lee Nason, a member of the Massachusetts Libertarian Party (MLP), says. For example, Nason believes that government welfare programs should be replaced by a system of private charity. "I think most people want to help the poor. Welfare laws exist because people voted them in. But that method doesn't work. The truly needy are not getting welfare and citizens are getting frustrated and not contributing to charity anymore. The bureaucracy can't handle people as individual cases...
Other anarchists echo Nason's criticism. "I think it's harmful to delegate authority to other people, like elected officials. It's much better to retain control over our own lives," Ann Kotell, a member of Black Rose, an organization which sponsors an anarchist lecture series at MIT, says. "The state has murdered more people and created more misery and horror than any of the problems it sought to alleviate ever...
...Boston Public Library is displaying lithographs, etchings and woodcuts by two New England artists in its Wiggins Gallery. The prints, mostly land and seascapes, by Thomas Nason and Stow Wengenroth, are meticulously detailed and have a brooding and evocative quality that makes them difficult to forget. The Wiggins Gallery, on the third floor of the research library, is just to the right of the John Singer Sargent Gallery, itself worth a few minutes perusal for the huge and fantastic murals Sargent painted on its ceiling...
...Jerry Nason, Executive Sports Editor of the Boston Globe and chairman of the Football Writers Association selection committee, said yesterday, "John brought Harvard football out from nowhere this year; he had enormous problems at the outset of the season. I feel it was John's best coaching performance at Harvard...
Former Rhodes Scholar Nason, 59, has himself had only three employers since he finished college. In 1953 he was lured away from Swarthmore after 22 years there (13 as president) to head Manhattan's Foreign Policy Association. Nine years later, in 1962, he became Carleton's first alumnus to head the school. He calls it "my last major...