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Known as "Carvin' Marvin" during his tenure as chairman of the Tennessee Valley Authority, Runyon will have his hands full trying to remold the way 750,000 employees handle (and sometimes mishandle) 540 million pieces of mail each day. When legislators set up the Postal Service as a government-sponsored corporation in 1971, they naively predicted an end to taxpayer subsidies. But the last time the service broke even was in 1982; the projected deficit for this year alone is $2 billion...
...remold the image, Quayle would have to be seen, first as an effective inside player and outside spokesman. With encouragement from Bush and White House chief of staff John Sununu, Quayle became a voluble participant in strategy sessions. He lined up with Sununu and Defense Secretary Dick Cheney, for instance, to support a relatively high budget for the Strategic Defense Initiative. Then it was Quayle who laid out in a major speech the Administration's line...
...raised eyebrows from those who always object to giving women the same freedom and responsibility as men. But they are wrong, for Radcliffe owes its current prominence to the courage of its educational experiments, past and present. Far from succumbing to social standards, Radcliffe has traditionally helped to remold them along progressive lines. Those who would claim timidity as a virtue are hardly doing a service to the College...
...propose, on the other hand, divestment from the USSR is nonsensical. Divestment and sanctions are the first tangible tools of pressure used by the U.S. and its citizens to remold South African society. In order to influence the Soviets, by contrast, we spend hundreds of billions in defensive and offensive weapons every year. The USSR is our stated enemy. South Africa is not, though it should be. Our foreign policies reflect this difference quite clearly, whether or not the Salient acknowledges the fact, and there is no divestment parallel that can be drawn with integrity...
...immerse yourself in, and identify boldly with, the positive aspects of those symbols. Never let the ever-present negatives of this world define your relationship to Harvard. This does not mean you avoid them and submit. Simply overcome them, see through them, and by your very equanimity, remold them, rather than have them define you. Remember, whatever shortcomings are there, they are nothing compared to what you will since in the world beyond Harvard...