Word: processes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Congress itself, of course, has ample power to check spending through the appropriation process. The House is stymied nonetheless because the Senate is more openhanded with cash than the lower chamber, and most Representatives want to dodge responsibility for retrenching important domestic programs. For its part, the Administration has said that it intends to slice perhaps $2 billion out of the current year's budget-but only after it knows how much Congress is appropriating overall. This is too little, too late and too vague for many House members...
Madison became a laughingstock, but after all, his war was a failure. In 1846, President James K. Polk suffered similar humiliation, even though he could claim victory in the end. Egged on by land-hungry Southern planters, he looked for reasons to attack Mexico, in the process pushed the American frontier to the Pacific Ocean. While it raged, Folk's war was the most unpopular in U.S. history...
...mainly as an anti-Communist with a long border with Russia. For ten unremarkable years, he lived in luxurious disdain of the welfare of his countrymen. Then along came a crusty old nationalist named Mohammed Mossadegh, who as Premier nearly overthrew the Shah in 1953 and, in the process, woke him up. "Suddenly, I realized that we were not only standing still but losing ground," says the Shah. "We had to develop...
...dissection become a pitilessly reasoned undertaking. The aim was to recast the collegian's thought process almost as radically as military basic training recasts the civilian's. Sensibilities were not spared. "Sir, that may be logical, but it's not ethical," said a student to renowned Professor Joseph Beale. Replied Beale coldly: "Sir, I suggest that you transfer to the divinity school." That pre-World War II exchange is not much different from the give-and-take in today's Harvard Law lecture rooms. "Mr. Marcuss, what is constitutionally objectionable about this ordinance?" Professor Frank Michelman...
Lights Out & On. Mr. Marcuss' thought process was doubtless properly sharpened. But sharp or not, most students do not shirk. Legal Aid Bureau President Deanne Siemer spends an irreducible six hours every day on studies outside of class-and outside of her voluminous extracurricular legal-aid work. "All of the kids work pretty hard, particularly in the first year," agrees Jay Becker, who compiled the school's first confidential critique of courses and professors (sample blasts: "Gave me an absurdly high grade. Disorganized. Wears white socks." "Lecturer is beneath the usual intellectual level of Harvard professors." "Zzzzzz."). Academic...