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...official subsidies for the clubs. We can only suspect that alumni of these clubs are among the University's more generous contributors and that administrators are loathe to antagonize such a group. We can also suspect that this "argument" is not morally consistent with anything Harvard might officially profess...
Reagan aides profess not to be worried about the age issue. White House polls show fewer than 10% of the respondents expressing concern about Reagan's age and, says one adviser, "so far the effect on how people say they are going to vote is zero." Some point out, in a kind of backhanded defense of their boss, that he was mentally loose and sometimes sloppy with facts even when he was young. But that does not settle the question. "The real danger isn't that [his debate miscues] connote an age problem," said former Reagan Campaign Manager...
Already the United States' ostensible friends are edging away from their ally, laden with guns and tanks but little else. In Honduras, where most of the contras fighting the Sandinistas are based, the officers ruling the country profess unease over the U.S. military role there. Meanwhile, Panama has forced the United States to shut down its School of the Americas, training ground for thousands of Latin American soldiers. And in Costa Rica, the fragile democracy is chafing under Washington's efforts to militarize the country, and it refused a recent U.S. request to extend an airstrip near its border with...
Lawrence's reputation is now so hallowed, his volatile life so mythologized, that anything he wrote is bound to command reverence or, at the very least, curiosity. Even those who dislike his work cannot, if they profess interest in 20th century tastes and ideas, afford to ignore...
There is an ironic contrast between the concern officials profess for the flexibility of a given room or House, and the relative inflexibility of their own policies on accommodating students--and it is this very rigidity which may be taking the heaviest toll on the House spirit they hold so dear...