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Since Harvard is powerless to change this historic pattern, it is futile for it to attempt to train a "broad national elite." Instead, it should concentrate on what it can do best--training an academic elite...
...work in the Democratic Party, it may have to realize that a compromise is not necessarily based on betrayal, cowardice, and ignorance, that it is often a part of the process of two strong groups vying for power. Without using the weapon of compromise, the MFDP may remain powerless...
Although Udall declared that he was powerless to do this, he tacity encouraged Bernays. The Secretary said in a letter: "You are certainly to be congratulated on your energetic efforts to alert your community, so that all who will be most affected can take a good look at what is about to happen...
...theoretically possible that the new government will take a progressive president and give him the power to push the reforms through which Goulart was powerless to achieve; this is the liberal justification for U.S. support of the coup. But given the political complexion of the new regime, and the past history of the man who made up its leadership, such reform is not likely to take place...
...Commission's own admission, it is powerless against this "hard-core pornography." Action must be taken against each particular issue of such a magazine, and under current statutes this involves an impossible tangle of legal maneuvers. Once a magazine of this sort is banned, the Commission contends, it invariably reappears with a slightly altered name and corporate structure...