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President Reagan is as mum about his intentions as is Volcker. Reagan says that he has not yet decided whether to ask Volcker to stay, and his advisers' private guesses about what he may do are mixed. Says one Treasury Department insider: "No President can resist the temptation to put his own man in a spot that powerful." But at least one top economic adviser to the President, impressed with the way Volcker has helped to bring down the inflation rate, hopes the Fed chairman will stay. Says he: "I think we would all benefit if he got another...
Lines like "Your life doesn't mean shit/Does that bum you out?/I won't get you high/I won't make you come" resist sexism by not mentioning women or men. The sons become diatribes against hedonism from the hedonist's point of view. They are vivid for the same reason that hardcore, despite criticism, remains alive--what else is there...
...same time he felt constrained, in some peculiarly inappropriate way, like an actor walking through a barely rehearsed part. Bits of idiot dialogue ran through his mind: "Show me the blade, and I'll show you the money." Folk wisdom was clear, though: never argue, never resist...
...would also be best if Begin did not call elections in the foreseeable future because an interim government would probably only mark time, and thus precious months for negotiation would be lost. If, as is widely expected, Begin then won the election handily, he would be emboldened further to resist U.S. pressures...
Messrs. Quillen and Benjamin maintain that for Harvard to resist the spirit of this law by compensating for lost funds would constitute "disrespect for the law," disregard for "social order." But law and order are not absolute edicts from above, to be unquestionably obeyed. They are human processes, determined only by informed, conscientious assent and dissent. If a law is unjust, I believe it must be resisted, so that higher laws may be allowed naturally to take effect. I encourage Harvard to show its concern for just legal process by negating the effect of this insidious measure. Kenneth Hale-Wehmann...