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...know an American who survived five years in a Japanese prison camp by loading his thin soup with bugs; there is no telling what delights Julia Child could stir up. Since the insects outweigh us 12 to 1, they could keep us alive through many expanding and otherwise hungry generations...
...these figures hold, 100 to 150 uncommitted Republican delegates will have the power to do what 6 million G.O.P. primary voters apparently could not: choose between Ford and Reagan. From 200 to 300 Democratic uncommitted may open the door to Carter-or bring on a brokered convention that could outweigh eleven million votes cast in Democratic primaries...
...constant trafficking in emotions, like closeups of people in pain being lifted into ambulances. This nightly distorted accumulation of police-beat misfortunes makes any city look like a disaster area. Items are tailored to the attention threshold of the least patient viewer. That is what happens when entertainment values outweigh news judgment...
...liberal and pragmatic value system that prevails at Harvard now, I don't mean to imply any separation between myself and the phenomena I am describing. Like most people here, I think the world taken as a whole is a sad place, where suffering and lack of freedom far outweigh happiness and liberty. I think that sadness is deeply rooted in the present structure of things, but not in the nature of things; in the abstract, it does not have to be. But if the world is in need of the most major sorts of changes, I do not really...
Gibson said last Friday he does not expect students to object to using card readers on campus because, he said, the readers are already used by banks and charge card companies. In addition, he said, "the advantages to limiting access so outweigh the inconveniences" that he believes students will accept installation of the readers...