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...level of participation is any accurate measure, student interest in Harvard's functions as a stockholder is practically nil...
Terry Kintop, a counselor for the Minnesota Department of Manpower Services, says that summer jobs for middle-class youths have been "nearly nil" in his area. "They don't qualify for special programs for poor kids, and they don't have the contacts the rich kids have." Last spring, his advice to job seekers was: "Go out and pound the pavements and show you are really interested." Many have been doing just that-all summer long...
...Vietnam, Michener went on to explain, was "of course" that it was waged on behalf of a nation that could not profit from our help and against a nation with whom we had no substantive quarrel. The fact that it killed several million innocent people counted for just about nil, apparently. My Lai does merit special attention, in Michener's view, however, because it "resulted in a kind of moral schizophrenia in the American people...
...idea of two Departments, though it would of course rejoice the souls of all economists who accept the idea of competition. And it should also be clear that my bureaucratic power -- justly, perhaps, since it has been exercised episodically and unreliably -- has always ranged between negligible and nil. John Kenneth Galbraith
...spontaneous revolution, they live out a morality of egoism to which even the petty cruelty of schoolchildren is preferable. There at least is a coherent ethics, compared to which Richmond's counterculture is a veritable jungle. The sexism is vicious, the community is haphazard, and the allegiance is nil. Still the author insists on romanticizing the squalor, to the extent where any of its exposure begins to look like the work of the reader. The sexism, in particular, was quite certainly not intended as such, and while I found it sick, and not even good pornographically, there is no doubt...