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...Administration has its rationale for sending the bombers north again in reply to Hanoi's invasion. "The North Vietnamese," said Secretary of State William Rogers, "are the culprits in this." Yes, but in a larger sense of proportion, any fit and rational relationship between the death and suffering inflicted and the gains to be made, seems irretrievably lost. Viet Nam has long since reached the point that no future -win, lose or stalemate-can redeem the present. As W.B. Yeats once asked: "What was left for massacre to save...
Mathematically, it was an impressive finesse. Equivalent perhaps in the game of corporate diplomacy to the Ali Shuffle. Relaxed and confident during the press conference in which the decision was first announced. Bok enumerated the constructive trade-offs implemented by the Corporation's decision with all of the rational enthusiasm...
"And that's what we're talking about," Jim Winston said Saturday. "That's really what the whole thing boils down to and they refuse to recognize that fact. And everything else that they say to disguise it can't hide that fact. There's nothing rational in the response...
In fostering these illusions, the University does semi-consciously what it does with deliberation in its policy of budgetary non-disclosure: tactically rationing information. Decisions about budget allocations or investment policy are reached, we are told, by a mysterious but preeminently rational process. Criticism, groping in the dark, is offered...
This year's nominations were altogether perverse. Although legends of ballot-stuffing are legion, usually the good ladies and gentlemen of the Academy pick the films they feel are good for the industry image. How anyone could back an out-and-out stinker like Nicholas and Alexandra while there were...