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...portray Paul Volcker as firm, dedicated, unyielding and irrevocably committed to a policy of tight money, regardless of the difficulties and hardships that are imposed on a large segment of our population. Volcker's approach can also be called intransigent and obstinate, which are synonymous with fanatic. In the course of history, fanaticism has never resulted in anything other than distress, frustration and misery...
...media tended to portray H.R. Haldeman and John Ehrlichman as Prussian drillmasters implementing with their own sadistic frills malevolent orders from the Oval Office. I was generally contrasted favorably with them. I was awarded the white hat, they the black. This was an oversimplification of all our roles...
Although the Medical School must ultimately enforce the policy it decrees, doctors in general should carefully scruntinize their own recommendatior. For some, this has meant they must portray that person in the most positive light possible or refuse to write the recommendation. In considering this issue, doctors must consider their obligations to the individuals they recommend but must not forget their far greater responsibilities to a society that could be seriously impaired by the services of an unethical doctor they recommend...
...hero behind the new antitrust policy is Assistant U.S. Attorney General William F. Baxter, whose reputation is growing among both liberals and conservatives. Like the Western sheriff his boss liked to portray in black-and-while movies. Baxter is aggressive, tough, and fair. In dropping the IBM case, he admitted straight forwardly that "it is perfectly clear that IBM obtained its very large market share in an entirely legal way." But one cannot charge him with being soft on big business; the AT&T settlement was entirely his doing, and his opposition recently prevented the G. Heileman Brewing Company from...
...Water" and the story of Convict-Celebrity Jack Henry Abbott portray the astonishing range of human character under stress. The man in the Potomac responded to unyielding nature with transcendent heroism. Abbott is accused of reacting to an indifferent society with random viciousness...