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THINGS ARE GETTING complicated for the con boys these days. It's no longer quite as easy to ride roughshod over the range six shooter in hand, rustling a few hundred heads here and there. Today's Texas stock is mostly paper not cattle or sheep, but as Harvey Katz's expose of Texas politics demonstrates that same frontier morality still exists, despite the increasing complexities of the world of high finance...
...rest are expected to stay on perhaps another three or four months to keep order and help with reconstruction. Indian and Bangladesh officials laid the groundwork for an even more massive migration-the return home of the 10 million Bengali refugees who had fled to India to escape roughshod repression by the Pakistani army...
...Smithies report is not a piece of serious academic work; it is more a roughshod analysis scraping along the surface. It is a product of a policymaker, although some of the policies, such as the aid allotments, are clearly unrealistic. Smithies' assumptions are more interesting than his conclusions...
...Young's photography. To describe a single instance is to do the man injustice. It is too bad that his desert must stand for Maurice Jarre's atonal Oriental ghoulash. But the film survives Jarre; with its mammoth views of sights not seen since Lawrence's time, it rides roughshod over its own flaws...
...that is true only if ETOB ("every tub on its own bottom") remains the principal rule of allocation. By failing to assault vigorously the principle of ETOB, the memorandum inevitably stacked the arguments to support the status quo. ETOB really means that the deans and their faculties run roughshod over a relatively powerless administration, helpless to set priorities or to weigh alternative expenditures. Harvard must clearly have a systematic procedure for simultaneously appraising all possible options for raising and spending money. If the President and Fellows reassumed these functions which they have decentralized to the various schools, they might...