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Speaking before a small group of World Federalists at the Union, Sarker claimed that Americans are so interested in free enterprise that they cannot understand the present socialistic trends of these poorer nations. In addition to this "economic blind spot," Sarker noted an intellectual vacuum in the United States' inability to distinguish between Communism and Marxism...
...dollars in one-dollar bills was stolen on Ash Wednesday by a subject who didn't have a full-time job and was facing the prospect of being seen on Easter Sunday without new clothes," Slack explained. "Around here this is a disgrace among the younger crowd from the poorer neighborhoods. Anyway, the money was left in the room with the boy and was fairly hanging out of the experimenter's coat, which was draped on a chair. The experimenter was at fault for leaving such temptations around." Much later, the subject admitted the theft, but the money...
...sincerely state that I agree with Senator Kennedy on the ends but differ on the means of achieving them. A tunnel to the Vatican would not be one of my means. Besides, I couldn't finance the project personally, as I am closer to poverty, less rich, and poorer than the Senator...
...cause any immediate problem since "everyone has been shell-shocked into expecting it" and because most of Harvard's "natural rivals" are near the same total cost. In the long run, however, rising tuition makes it tougher and tougher for the College to keep in contact with the economically poorer sections of the population--a contact it wishes to maintain, Glimp said...
...claim of impossible competition for talent and his assertion that admissions procedures are eliminating creative students contradict one another. If, as he claims, there is little relation between postcollegiate success and test scores, then the wealthiest colleges that, he says, rely upon these figures could hardly be denying the poorer schools potentially eminent graduates. Admissions procedures that eliminate the creative student are hardly unique to this group of universities, but Holland has chosen to level these unrelated charges solely against them. Over-emphasis on preparation is a prevalent evil, but it has nothing to do with concentration of scholarship funds...