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...twin perceptions of Steiner grow out of his unofficial role as University troubleshooter. Early in the Bok years, he proved his mettle as an effective administrator, and the president increasingly entrusted him with sensitive crisis-management duties--foremost among them, dealing with student disruptions. Steiner himself didn't resist the new responsibilities which he once told The Crimson are "natural for a lawyer...I don't feel uncomfortable working in a charged atmosphere...
...powerlessness to resist an apocalyptic event may be exceeded by only one worse form of suffering: the inability to explain it. Elie Wiesel, sent to Auschwitz as a boy, has spent a lifetime examining and re-examining the Holocaust as historian, novelist and theologian. Three years ago, after revisiting Auschwitz, he confessed, "I understand it less and less...
Undeniably, the Democrats' surprisingly easy defeat of the amendment continued the President's losing streak on Capitol Hill. Congress has recently reasserted its responsibility to evaluate carefully the schemes shuttled over from the White House and resist the temptations of Reagan's previously successful cuff links-and-small talk lobbying efforts...
...close-knit family would probably resist such taunts, forming a united front in the battle against the geists. But when the latest hatred is there, the outside influences play on it. When Sonny, on the suggestion of his incorporeal advisors, shoots his parents and siblings, the moviegoer's rather ghastly reaction is that it was well deserved. Point made. End of film...
...vocational training. In 1979, according to one Carnegie study, 58% of all undergraduates pursued "professional" majors (up from 38% a decade earlier), in contrast to 11% in social sciences, 7% in biological sciences, 6% in the arts and 4% in physical sciences. Rich and prestigious private universities can resist this rush toward vocational training, but public and smaller private colleges are more vulnerable. "The bulk of the institutions will have to give in to a form of consumerism," says U.C.L.A.'s Astin, "in that they need applicants and will therefore have to offer students what they want...