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...this story fades into the history books, a couple of morals--or at least questions need to be raised One, of course, regards costs. All officials concede that the price tag is inordinately high for the relatively small amount of square footage involved Some have tried to put the onus on the Historical Commission for imposing by Byzantine regulations. "They certainly call the shots Harvard really had little flexibility." George Oomen, project manager, says. And perhaps some of the blame does he there...

Author: By Jacob M. Schlesinger, | Title: Gatehousegate | 8/2/1983 | See Source »

...Samoan society. This comes through, for instance, in his analysis of the importance of virginity in Samoan culture. Mead had noted that some of the girls from families of high status were ceremonial virgins or laupou. These girls, Mead said, would be deflowered publically, and the onus for the chastity of the whole community was on their shoulders--thus freeing other young girls to indulge in casual lovemaking. Freeman, studying mainly upper-class girls, concluded that far more Samoan girls remained virgins until marriage. Indeed, he concludes that, "It should now be apparent that Samoa, where the cult of female...

Author: By Simon J. Frankel, | Title: Out for Blood | 4/16/1983 | See Source »

...question is not whether we can deploy. We can deploy, there is no doubt about it now. But the election does not guarantee that we can do so in an orderly way." In other words, the U.S. must still demonstrate flexibility in the Geneva talks and put any onus for failure on the Soviets...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: West Germany: Getting Down to Work | 3/21/1983 | See Source »

Almost alone among conservative columnists, moreover, he has refused to utter the ritual invocation that any departure by Reagan from right-wing dogma must be a result of his having been misled by aides. Repeatedly, Safire has been willing to put the onus for policy shifts squarely on the President. In January he wrote of what he regarded as Reagan's waffling in the State of the Union address: "He chose to be somebody else, or everybody else...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: Rarely Safe, Very Rarely Sorry | 3/14/1983 | See Source »

That doctrine puts a terrible onus on the ability of each to monitor the activity of the other and to see an attack coming. It also puts an almost inconceivable burden on the ability of a leader to react decisively yet wisely in a matter of minutes. That is why the superpowers have preferred to stick with a concept of stability posited on "mutual survivability," whereby each side could absorb a nuclear attack and then retaliate with devastating force. Dense Pack deployment of the MX would be a step toward a condition of "mutual vulnerability," in which each side would...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Disturbing the Strategic Balance | 12/6/1982 | See Source »

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