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...Yale value freedom as much as Harvard undergraduates; administrators at those schools, though, have realized that the high value students place on individual liberty need not hamstring officials desirous of acting for the good of the whole community. As a result, ironies abound. It is Yale--whose administrators profess to "focus on the individual colleges" more than Harvard does on its Houses--whose dorms have avoided the deleterious stereotypes that have afflicted Harvard. And it is Princeton--known for its stodgy, old-world outlook towards education--that is acting to break up homogeneous dorms and to encourage inter-racial, inter...
High unemployment is not unique to the U.S. It is afflicting other Western industrial democracies as well. (Although Communist bloc nations profess to have no unemployment whatsoever, the severe troubles afflicting their economies belie that ideological stance.) In Canada the jobless rate is 8.6%, up from 7.4% the year before. In the ten nations of the European community, the unemployment rate stands at a postwar high of 9%, leaving more than 10 million unemployed. In France the rate is 8.7% (up from 7.5% in December 1980), in Italy 9.1% (up from 8.3%). In West Germany the figure...
...great credibility with the estblishment. Thus his lack of attention to the problems of the Black poor is especially dismaying since he can reach such a powerful audience. But perhaps it should not surprise us that Jordan does not delineate the problems of the black poor. Those who profess to defend the interests of the poor usually do not serve on corporate boards. Those who seek to save the oppressed usually do not find a $200,000-a-year corporate law job the most efficacious method of performing that task...
...month-long trial of the slot machines proves successful on the Singapore-San Francisco run, S.A. will install them on the remainder of the airline's fleet of 16 jumbo jets. Airline officials profess that they are not endorsing gambling, only providing their customers with a different form of in-flight entertainment. It is also one that could help make up for revenues lost to seat-occupying passengers...
Even within the system that they profess to despise, the youngsters have their sympathizers. Says Hans-Jochen Vogel, 55, the former S.P.D. mayor of West Berlin whose lenient approach to local housing squatters did nothing to endear him to already disenchanted voters in last May's local election: "There is definitely a youth protest that has spread all over. The real problem is understanding the motivation behind the movement. I see a lack of credibility among the young toward politicians and all things political, a feeling that too much of their life is administered for them...