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...less existential note: Rumor has it that The Crimson engages in politically partial terminology. Certain campus voices claim that we use the term "right-wing" for conservatives, and yet the term "left-wing" never appears in these pages. Is this true...
Little did he suspect just how long -- or rugged -- that road would be. For most of his early life, there had been ample good luck. His father, a tailor, struck it rich in 1944 by winning the national lottery. That, and a partial scholarship, enabled Duarte to attend the University of Notre Dame, where he earned a degree in civil engineering. When he returned home, Duarte married the daughter of his father's best friend and joined his father-in-law's lucrative construction firm as a partner. In 1960 Duarte helped found the Christian Democratic Party, and four years...
Rosovsky's preface neglects to mention, however, a crucial difference between these broadly-defined "owners" and himself. Students, faculty and administrators may claim partial ownership of a university. As a member of the Corporation, however, Rosovsky really does own Harvard--in a legal sense...
...However, partial transcripts of two days of the session, in which 51 speakers took the floor, indicated that neither radical reformers nor hard-liners were satisfied with Gorbachev's proposal...
...practical terms, that means something far less than the black demand for a nonracial democratic system based on one man, one vote, which would transfer power from whites to blacks. The National Party is willing to accept only a partial sharing of power on the basis of what it calls group rights, under which each racial group would decide its own affairs on the basis of self- administration...