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...that anyone killed doing his thing is a martyr. The liberal-dominated press seldom speaks out now against the suppression of human liberties in countries like Hungary, Latvia, Estonia and Lithuania, but continues to blame the white race for being so long silent and inactive concerning the plight of its Negro brothers in the Old South and the new ghettos. Inconsistency, thou art a liberal virtue...
...first castling his king into a protected corner-a basic defensive maneuver taught in every chess primer. That indiscretion proved costly; it ultimately gave Petrosian an opportunity to pin Fischer's exposed king in a devastating crossfire. Backed into a corner after the 32nd move, Fischer pondered his plight for ten minutes and then resigned. His win streak ended at 20 straight, Bobby suddenly seemed to lose his momentum...
Japan's plight was well understood by the Europeans, who realized that Japan has been hit hard by U.S. trade and monetary action. The visitors stressed that in its race to become a preeminent industrial power, Japan has strained its social and economic framework, leaving itself peculiarly vulnerable to a slowdown in world trade...
Behind this simple concept is a highly sophisticated computer model of the city synthesized by Forrester and put forward in Urban Dynamics. The model's behavior led him to believe--and has convinced many others--that policies which ease the short run plight of the underemployed almost invariably work out to the long-run detriment of all concerned...
Obviously this is not the type of policy favored by liberal intellectuals and politicians. Forrester has been called "Insensitive" to the plight of the poor--a charge that ignores the long term benefits his proposals would produce--and his model has been challenged on several grounds. Gregory Ingram, a leading critic, maintains that Forrester never explicitly defines criteria for evaluating programs. John F. Kain, professor of Government at Harvard, believes that Forrester overstates the role of housing availability in attracting immigrants. Others have charged that the model is structurally inexact because it does not include the suburbs...