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...adds that even if the U.S. does nothing, the hardliners cannot repress liberalizing forces indefinirely. "That kind of social power can be restrained, oppressed--but not forever...
Time for thousands of pre-medical students across the country to repress their natural physical urges and study for the grueling 8-hour MCAT (Medical Community's Attempt at Torture) exam to be held Saturday. This year, I am one of those pre-meds, and after several hours of preparation--consisting primarily of staring at poster-size blowups of sexually transmitted diseases--I am ready to sublimate...
Professor Arzt concludes that the amendment now facing the Knesset "would place Israel in a camp with the country most widely known for its manipulative uses of law and the legal system to repress civil liberties and civil rights...
...planet, then, with its checks and balances and feedback loops and delicate adjustments always striving for light and equilibrium, is like a mind. In this way of thinking, pollution is literal insanity (Bateson was also a psychologist). To dump toxic waste in a swamp, say, is like trying to repress a bad thought or like hitting your wife every night and assuming that because she doesn't fight back, you can abuse her with impunity -- 30 years later she sets your bed on fire...
...left, in Moscow's view, is nothing but time and patience. "If you think we don't understand the situation, you are wrong," said a frustrated Soviet observer last week. "Not one Soviet, from the President on down to a schoolchild, approves of China's use of tanks to repress the students. But the only way we can really help is by example, through deepening democracy in our own country...