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...weaknesses from immediate exposure. Second, Lewis contended, some journalists are gun-shy because they worry their views on issues are more liberal than the President's and that the public would thus not take hard-hitting accounts seriously. Both those reasons for journalistic quiescence become irrelevant, however, when their raison d'etre-public and Congressional backing of the President-fades. Reagan's waning influence, accelerated by the Administration's internal backbiting, undermines any argument for laissez-faire press coverage...
Although Johnson hopes to do well in tomorrow's Eastern competition, she emphasizes that if she gets beaten, she will not be devastated. "Shot putting is not my raison d'etre," she explains. "Sometimes I see these shot putters who are shot putters through and through, but in the long run I know I have more than they do, I mean, how good are they in basketball? Can they play the flute? That's one of the greatest things about being a Harvard athlete--it means that you have more going for you than just your sport...
...armaments which only intensified paranoia, but by employing the very resources which had hitherto created bombs, towards the creation of a concord of fundamental arms. The key aims will be design and build conditions in which democracy can bloom. When there is such overwhelming agreement on strategy tactics, the raison d' etre of our stockpiles of weapons is obviated. Only then can we say. "The rest is beyond our control...
...Epps' opinion, seeks "a kind of intellectual community,"--the "community of culture" once envisioned by President A. Lawrence Lowell, who installed the House system--by allowing Houses to develop reputations based on residents' interests. But in encouraging separatism, the College discourages the inter group contact that is the raison d'etre of intellectual diversity. Administrators maintain the preferential lottery largely in the name of the traditions that have grown up around individual Houses. In doing so, though, they subvert a broader tradition: what Epps calls President Lowell's "notion that people from different social classes were to rub shoulders together...
...Soviets at once, Jaruzelski said: "Citizens, just as there is no turning back from socialism, so there is no turning back to the erroneous methods and practices of pre-1980." But then he said: "The Polish-Soviet alliance is and will remain the cornerstone of the Polish raison d'état." Within hours of the imposition of martial law, Radio Moscow carried an approving bulletin on the government's action. Said a government official in Moscow: "The Soviet troops in Poland are in their barracks. Polish troops have control of the situation." Jaruzelski's move was reported...