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...commission, which was established in 1910 to safeguard the capital against invasions of bad taste and urban barbarism, wanted something more appealing. It asked for another try from the Park Service, which is in charge of the White House grounds. The Park Service, in turn, commissioned architects Wiley & Wilson of Richmond. "Any new addition to the White House ought to look as if it had always been there," said Commission Chairman J. Carter Brown, 47, who is also director of the National Gallery of Art. "Like the mansion itself, it should have the feel of a historic Georgian country house...
...away on a major theme of the current high court: deference to legislators. While conceding that the 14th Amendment's guarantee of equal protection under the law applies even to those illegally in the country (a seeming paradox to many laymen), Burger accused the majority of misusing that safeguard. "The Constitution," he said, "does not provide a cure for every social ill, nor does it vest judges with a mandate to try to remedy every social problem...
That sounds to us like a great bargain, one that would not be weakened substantially by the additional expenditure of $50,000 to safeguard human lives. Such a grant might also spur other private donations to improve Arboretum safety. The University should recognize its responsibility to local residents, and again put aside its austere accounting principles in favor of common sense...
...concerns the sanctity of the Ivory Tower itself, which Bok skillfully goes to great lengths to defend. His discussion of the ideal of the university's "four essential freedoms" is stirring and convincing, if not refreshing. The second level focuses on the methods the university should employ to both safeguard those values and exert positive influence on society. This dominates most of the book and can summed up by the words "cost-benefit analysis." The interplay between the two levels proves far from satisfying and raises several disturbing questions...
...Loghod and Pattullo's opponents full to realize is that nothing can be move dangerous to a University community than the exclusion of competing views. Except an educational issues, universities need not--and probably should not--have political ideologies, like support or oppositions to the PLO. They should, however, safeguard one set of values--that of pluralism, discourse and toleration. The gestures of the HJLSA and the GSA in trying to silence their critics, would undermine those values...