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...Realm of God, by Margaret Drabble...
...seems to constitute an ethic of irresponsibility. Still, we can grant Bok his contention that academic freedom would be imperiled. But it is harder to accept his argument that institutions should have neither friends nor enemies, only interests. This notion lies behind his plea for neutrality in the nonacademic realm: a university must protect its vested interests for the sake of academic freedom. Thus he focuses on method instead of effect; thus he strives to make detached cost-benefit analyses; thus his motives and his morals are in the end utilitarian. But there is no organic, causal connection between interests...
...personal life also contributed heavily to Marglin's rejection of his new-classical training He had to face students demanding answers to questions about the connection between American capitalism and the war in Vietnam--questions which, he says, the mainstream refused to address, considering them in the realm of sociology or politics, not economics To admit that these questions had relevance to economic meant entering the radical world...
...Corps of Engineers for huge canal systems that would import water from South Dakota, Missouri and Arkansas. The routes - all of which would be uphill - range in length from 376 miles to 1,135 miles. The cost- from $3.6 billion to $22.6 billion - currently places the canals in the realm of fantasy...
Harvard's number-one ranking in this weekend's Eastern AIAW Championships, which will be played at the Yale Bowl in New Haven, is just one more obvious indication of Kleinfelder's and her team's prowess, and it is in the Easterns rather than in the realm of speculation and accusation that the laxwomen prefer to concentrate their energies...