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Others, including David and Garber, said theybelieve the CUE Guide can never represent theviews of all students perfectly. "Since the textis in the nature of a paragraph, it would be hardfor it to speak with the voice of 400 people,"said Garber, who teaches Literature and Arts A40b,"Shakespeare...

Author: By Michael E. Wall, | Title: CUE Guide Extends Coverage, Introduces 5-Point Rating Scale | 5/4/1987 | See Source »

...meaningful to measure "social frustration" or "economic development" or "political instability" according to some absolute scale, applicable at all times, to all countries, or to such diverse countries as are listed in the paragraph following the equations? Huntington lists France, Belgium, and the Union of South Africa as "satisfied" societies with "high degrees of political instability," while the Philippines are only one of two "dissatisfied" countries with a "high level of political stability." Huntington's book was written in 1968. Can the "political (in)stability" of Belgium, say, be compared with that of Argentina, or that of the Philippines...

Author: By Serge Lang, | Title: On a Recent Non-Election to the NAS | 5/4/1987 | See Source »

...Khmer Rouge in Cambodia (a mirror image of "forced-draft urbanization"), after the U.S. invasion of that country. Such people can have whatever political opinion they want: I do not regard these opinions as science, merely political opinions and their implementations. Note how the word "modernization" occurs in a paragraph like the above, as well as on the page with the famous "equations" and the "correlation of .50." Thus Huntington gives the illusion of setting a scientific stage for his statements, but only the illusion. He is in fact deeply involved in justifying and implementing the reality which he purports...

Author: By Serge Lang, | Title: On a Recent Non-Election to the NAS | 5/4/1987 | See Source »

Such excessively poetic descriptions soon become tiresome, the moreso because Naipaul keeps on repeating them. In one paragraph, for example, he tells us three times that hay is warm and golden...

Author: By Vindu P. Goel, | Title: Oxford Blues | 4/27/1987 | See Source »

...uncertain situation. At their gathering, Federal Reserve Chairman Paul Volcker undoubtedly emphasized the same understated point he had made to a Senate committee earlier in the week, when he said, "Further sizable depreciation of the dollar could well be counterproductive." The ministers emerged wearily after nightfall with a three-paragraph statement. Its thrust was a reaffirmation of a declaration made by virtually the same group last February in Paris that the dollar's value should remain "around current levels...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Dollar Gets No Respect | 4/20/1987 | See Source »

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