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Except for thermonuclear war, population growth is the gravest issue the world faces over the decades immediately ahead. In many ways it is an even more dangerous and subtle threat than war, for it is less subject to rational safeguards, and less amenable to organized control. It is not in...
Derrick A. Bell Jr., Harvard University Law School: "If the court applies the same standards of proof to Bakke's claim that it has to civil rights proponents, Bakke will lose. To prove discrimination, you must also show intent to discriminate. The Justices will find that although race was...
"The issue has generated so much emotion that informed, rational debate is impossible now," he said. "The 18-month moratorium is a unique opportunity to educate the public on a complex subject. Time is on the side of rational thought on this issue."
...They were not random hallucinations, the wandering visions of a weakened mind: shot through though they were by grotesque sexual obsessions, they were highly rational constructions, artfully designed not only to be coherent in themselves, indestructible by obvious fact, but also to corroborate other, earlier, now threatened figments of the...
Radner plans to begin his research at Harvard with "a criticism of the textbook picture of economic man as a rational thinker," he said. Building on work of political scientist Herbert Sinon, Radner said he hopes to develop mathematical models of how people actually behave in complex economic situations.