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...WILLINGNESS TO FORGIVE and forget past sins is a peculiar American habit. Ask Richard Nixon, elected to the White House six years after giving a creditable impression of a psychotic in the wake of the California gubernatorial election...
...public, despite its daily if not hourly intimacy with the press, does not really understand it very well. That lack of understanding is reflected in the courts, although it goes far beyond matters of the law. In part, this is inevitable because the press is indeed a peculiar institution, full of paradoxes. To understand and judge -even to criticize it for the right reasons-a few broad points might be kept in mind...
...articulated in a report by Dean Rosovsky earlier this year, remain the focus of concern for GSAS administrators and individual departments. Besides the more general considerations affecting the quality of the nation's graduate education, GSAS students and Faculty also spent this year discussing internal administrative problems peculiar to Harvard. No group initiated substantial changes, because "change at the GSAS is like a slow-moving ship," says Edward L. Keenan '57, dean of the GSAS. But administrators and students have clearly maneuvered into positions from which to take action next year...
...peculiar that in the name of diversity and intellectual freedom the teaching fellows have objected to the idealism of students. It is my fervent hope that these teachers of American political theory will not silence the politics of morality in the student body. Lena Zezulin '76 Resident tutor, Mather House
...social and economic life. It was given added thrust by the 1968 CELAM in Medellin, Colombia, when the bishops overwhelmingly denounced the "institutionalized violence" of various Latin American governments. Since then, many supporters of the comunidades have enthusiastically adopted the language and goals of the "theology of liberation," a peculiar blend of Marxian economic analysis and Gospel imperatives, best articulated by Peruvian Priest Gustavo Gutierrez in the early 1970s. Observes Volta Redonda Bishop Waldyr Calheiros de Novais: "The comunidades are the theology of liberation put into practice...