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Does Harvard wish to cooperate with the Community in planning the future or does it wish to dictate to the Community and punish us when in its eyes we misbehave? When one sees Harvard's bulldozer knocking over an old house, one can only be struck by the frailty and impermanence of our physical surroundings and our society. Sincerely, Millard Long
...back to the oil countries. In the 1980s some OPEC members may be earning as much from interest on their loans and bank deposits as from oil. This added wealth would give them more flexibility to reduce oil production if they want to conserve their liquid gold or to punish importers by reductions for political reasons. Meanwhile, to pay the interest, the borrowers may have to print more and more money, fueling inflation...
...never ideological; he is killed not because he is immoral but because he is amoral, not because he has made the wrong decisions but because he has made no decisions at all. The people responsible for Lucien's alienation are responsible for his crimes, and it is they who punish him as well. Like most of the collaborators, Lucien's links to his "side" of the war are based on the accidents of his personal history, the nuances of his particular case...
...majority vote showed that "the people of Massachusetts are humane and decent," Wald said. "They never backed the war and don't want to punish people who stayed...
...risk the bundle in Las Vegas (where he doubles it), then lose it all on some unwise basketball bets. He finally settles the matter by getting his favorite student -a black -to shave points in a game, then expiate that sin by provoking a black pimp and whore to punish him unwittingly in a switchblade battle...