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...take these courses during their residence as undergraduates in order to be licensed to practice after medical school. Therefore a student who enters the College with credit for an Advanced Placement course in one of these sciences must take an upper level course in that subject to fulfill this pointless requirement...
...case clearly did not affect national security. It did, though, revive old arguments in Britain that the secrecy surrounding C's identity is pointless and the country's top spy might as well be identified routinely in the same way that the director of the CIA or Russia's KGB is. The debate is unlikely to affect Sir John. He has moved his retirement ahead eleven months, apparently because he feels compromised by the incident...
...Although Kissinger has a big brain," Landas writes, "he is semi-human like the rest of us." In a citywide ecology dragnet Cambridge police arrest six staff members of the Harvard University Gazette and book them for "willful, premeditated and repeated pollution of the area with noxious and pointless litter." Collapsing in the face of police interrogation, Harvard Publicity Director Deans Lord admits that Derek Bok, Henry Kissinger and Patrick Moynihan were her creation. "We needed some cheap notoriety," Lord sobs. "Not every experiment is a successful one." In an ecumenical Christmas Eve gesture, President Bok and Christopher Jencks hold...
...World nations tend to agree. This year the U.S. was the only member to vote against and finally abstain from the main disarmament resolution. The proposal was unexceptional, merely calling for a committee to study the possibility of holding a general disarmament conference, but the U.S. regarded it as pointless since it would simply lead to more talking...
...plague. The public has retreated, in turn, from it. This is a worldwide phenomenon, and what now exists is not simply a recession of interest (and talent) but a general weariness-a reluctance to believe in the avant-garde as principle. To be ahead of the game now seems pointless, for the game-under its present rules-is not worth playing...