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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...addition, "the bare possibility that MATEP may sell excess energy to Boston Edison in the future does not affect the plant's non-profit status, "particularly when there is little likelihood that such sales will occur," he wrote...

Author: By Thomas H. Howlett, | Title: MATEP Clean Air Exemption Upheld | 1/5/1982 | See Source »

Schiller, long before silicon chips, believed that man could attain Mortality through Play. Man would play. He would develop his aesthetic senses and grasp Beauty, even the Sublime. The revolutions of the 19th century would not occur: "No privilege, no autocracy of any kind, is tolerable where taste rules, and the realm of aesthetic semblance extends its sway." The California hot-tub view of history...

Author: By Peter Kolodziej, | Title: Confident Impotence | 12/12/1981 | See Source »

...commission will use its power of approval over pro fights to insure even contests, Rawson said, explaining that he hopes to cut down on mis matches for safety purposes. Injuries often occur in bouts where one boxer is clearly out-matched...

Author: By Mike Knobler, | Title: Rawson: A Real Knock-Out | 12/10/1981 | See Source »

IMMEDIATE MAJORITY rule requires instituting a new voting policy in a hurry. But sudden movements tend to upset delicate equilibria, like the relative peace now in South Africa. In such a dangerous and unbalanced situation, literally anything could occur. Witness the notorious excesses of revolutions from France in 1789 to Iran two years...

Author: By Julian A. Treger, | Title: Slow and Steady in South Africa | 12/10/1981 | See Source »

Certainly apartheid is morally indefensible; equally certainly, majority rule should eventually occur. But it must not occur immediately. As Prime Minister Botha said recently, "We must adapt or die." Those who call for immediate majority rule--and the concomitant bloodshed of revolution--pave the way for needless death and suffering...

Author: By Julian A. Treger, | Title: Slow and Steady in South Africa | 12/10/1981 | See Source »

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