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In his more than eight years in Massachusetts Hall, perhaps nothing has been attacked or scrutinized more than Bok's personal politics. Like his predecessor--who had come to be seen as the symbol of a tightlipped conservative institution which cared little for its students--Bok has increasingly come to...
Joseph Conrad is the only accurate historian Naipaul finds, and his fiction is the subject of the fourth essay, "Conrad's Darkness." He offers Naipaul solidity: well-considered ideas that have been tested, conclusions which Naipaul can trace to their roots. His writing is a welcome change from the rhetorical...
Exactly a decade ago this spring, none of this was very obvious. Marshall's denunciations of the University of Washington's athletic links with Brigham Young University, a Mormon school that was accused of racism, helped provoke a nasty riot. Seattle Liberation Front and Black Student Union supporters...
Reagan has a history of committing rhetorical blunders that drive away voters. His quest in 1976 was damaged when he suggested vaguely, without proper research and consideration, that $90 billion in federal programs should be turned back to the states. He then spent months explaining that the affected programs would...
At no time since the height of the cold war has the cult of brute force been professed so openly." An editorial in the New York Times?'The Washington Post? In fact, the statement appeared last week in Pravda, which went on to denounce America's "unprecedented militarism...