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...point about using secrecy to obtain the professor truthful account offered up by Lewis as a partial defense of the College's current practice, is absurd on its face. An investigative body must operate on the assumption that it has the power to get its suspects to tell the truth. To act otherwise is to make every case a plea bargain, in which Harvard makes a major concession at the start of a case, merely in return for the professor's decision to tell the truth. The College should act with the assumption that its faculty members...
...flatlands. But its confident statement of hope has become a bitter irony to the farmers at nearby El Canadá, a cooperative set up under an ambitious land reform program begun two years ago. It is planting time at El Canadá, but the cooperative has been unable to obtain credit to buy seed and fertilizer. The fields are fallow, the oxen idle. No one has yet received a day's pay. Unless the tomato and corn crops are planted in the next week or two, there will be no harvest this year...
...children by subordinate women ensures the reproduction in each generation of the psychology of male supremacy. It produces sexually aggressive men with little capacity to nurture, nurturant women with undeveloped sexual capacities, and children of both sexes who stand in awe of the power of fathers. Wherever these conditions obtain, father daughter incest is likely to be a common occurrence...
...will have a money-market account run by Boston's Massachusetts Financial Services. At the same time, they will be able to buy and sell stocks, bonds and other securities through Bradford Broker Settlement Inc., a New York discount brokerage. Customers can also use their accounts to obtain margin loans for investments...
...organization each week attending neighborhood political meetings and plotting strategy for the machine. It's not as if White is handing out jobs to all his workers. Instead, It's the other way around city employees who would expect to lose their jobs if White loses an election obtain positions in the machine. The ward coordinators and precinct captains the bear of the machine all hold city jobs. And every one of them--from Lora Baldwin, an administrative assistant in the Community Development Department up to Dennis Morgan director of the budget give money to the Committee for a Better...