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The Stockman article also stimulates the Crimson writer to announce that Stockman's candor "provides the perfect opportunity for unraveling the deceit and sophistry which have characterized the administration's program." This seems to be pure rhetorical nonsense designed to fit his perceptions of the Reagan Administration as inherently evil...
That too he sees as an issue of power. Says he: "I was never really integrated into the Communist Party because I was homosexual, and it was an institution that reinforced all the values of the most traditional bourgeois life." In his historical research, Foucault was impressed by the fact...
The whole thing could have come off as didactic pomposity: there are enough vague rhetorical questions about identity and responsibility to fill up a semester-long adolescent psychology course. But under David Moore's direction, none of the themes is played so hard as to alienate the audience or to...
The problem is--as the Rent Control Task Force convention vote showed--that tenants do not feel that wholehearted support of rent and condominium controls are irresponsible. For Abt (and for every current member of the city council save David Sullivan, who rents his home) economic necessity is not an...
It should be emphasized that in no way have we attempted to argue for or against preferential minority representation on the council. For the very notion of what constitutes an "oppressed minority" at Harvard is itself open to question as white gays and women, Asians, non-Black Hispanics, and middle...