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...Benign neglect's no good for starved Bengalis...
...Premier has been criticized for his undiplomatic bluntness, his lackluster speaking style and his neglect of the Labor Party, which, in the sudden absence of yesterday's superstars, is in a melancholy state of disorganization. But he has also gained credit for being an able administrator and tactician, not to mention his striking speed-reading ability. Six months ago, Arab leaders tended to dismiss him as a weak and probably transitional figure; today they are not so sure. In Israel, most political observers now predict a long premiership for him-a remarkable accomplishment, considering the many problems he faces...
...Interior Rogers C.B. Morton decrying the growing number of lay-offs resulting from the "miners' strike"--indicating, apparently, that no one has lost his job due to the coal operators' recalcitrance--the initial response from Washington officials was, as The New York Times editorialist A.H. Raskin put it, "benign neglect." Members of the Executive Branch, including labor economist John T. Dunlop, coordinator of Ford's advisory commission on labor and management, stayed clear of the fracas...
...academic department. The Economics Department is only the most current and most public example of a common malaise afflicting all of Harvard academia to a lesser or greater degree. Regardless of degree, its symptoms are the same: an ingrown and complacent faculty too much concerned with research to the neglect of teaching, and a definition and acceptance of students as second-class citizens...
...decade after black students began to discover "the subtle, pervasive flaws in our attitudes toward minority groups." Bok told the NAACP that when these black activists took a close look at Harvard's hiring and academic policies in the sixties they found "a vast capacity for benign neglect, easy rationalizations for inaction and myriad forms of subtle discrimination that infected many levels of administration throughout our complex institutions...