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Muskie is appalled by the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. "The Soviet Union [must] know and understand that we must resist and object in the strongest terms to their policy of intervention." But he adds that "we have to have constant communications, action and reaction, until both sides have a clear perception of how the other side stands. I don't think it means you have to go around saber rattling or missile rattling. It's to our mutual interest to reach an agreement on nuclear arms and to find a way to live on this planet together." Muskie...
...object to the priority but to the publicity. There were two mistakes. One was to proclaim the hostages the central issue of foreign policy; the price goes up by the very importance you attach publicly to the hostages. The other mistake was to create the impression that there was some price we would pay to get them released. This turned it from an issue of principle into an issue of haggling over terms...
...extent that his vision is consistent with the law as it evolves in response to social changes. This self-restraint is the very soul of judicial impartiality. The ideal is to have the losing party feel that he is not the victim of the judge, but simply the object of a process that is the same...
...often acknowledges the criticism of others so that he can temper it. He calls Edmund Wilson's plain, sometimes blunt style "democratic, in the sense that this distinguished man will not for long allow one phrase to be better than another." Evelyn Waugh is similarly pardoned: "To object to his snobbery is as futile as objecting to cricket, for every summer the damn game comes round again whether you like...
...hardly object to trained experts offering advice on the problems of the day; academics have a valuable perspective to offer even if they have to fly to Washington once a week to offer it. The question remains, though, where should Harvard's primary loyalties lie? Bok the corporate lawyer, with a keen eye for efficient, cost-effective management techniques, symbolizes the technocratic turn Harvard has taken under his guidance. The future looks no more hopeful. The tight academic job market drives scholars out of liberal arts careers. Some of Harvard's greatest humanists--scholar/teachers like Glen W. Bowersock '57, associate...