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Radcliffe capitulated to Harvard on the essential issue, partly for the sake of the very attractive financial arrangement and partly because Harvard wasn't going to give in. But by the time Derek Bok assumed the University's presidency in 1971, the pressure for more equal admissions was too great to ignore. Bok announced that fall that the College would move to a 2.5-to-1 male-female ratio from the old 4 to 1. But the pressure was nearly as great from Harvard alumni to maintain the size of the Harvard undergraduate body. So Bok decided to expand...
...Democrats' National Campaign Committee chairman: "Gerald Ford's assumption of the presidency will result in the election of about 15 Republican Congressmen who might not have made it if the impeachment process had continued." Carter emphasizes that no Democrats wanted to keep Nixon in office for the sake of gaining seats. Still, they know that his departure from the White House will enable Republicans to avoid calamity. As one Carter aide somewhat wistfully puts it: In the narrowest partisan terms, some Democrats "would have preferred to see Nixon twisting slowly, slowly, in the wind...
...sake brewer, Sasakawa made a fortune before he was 30 by speculating in Osaka's grain and stock markets. He also was-and is-a dedicated right-wing superpatriot who decries the social changes that are moving Japan away from traditional manners and mores. In traditional fashion, he likes to boast of his conquest of more than 500 women, ranging from "a distant relative of Emperor Taisho to almost all the top geisha." His unbridled admiration for Benito Mussolini -"the perfect fascist and dictator" -lingers to this day. Indeed, Sasakawa sometimes boasts that he is the "world...
...much attention must be paid to fears of backlash or martyrdom? For the sake of the public temper, how universally approved must any major political decision be? The questions matter because the well-being of society depends on more than democracy's numbers and nose counts...
...begins with Mill's revealing vocabulary. His approved words-originality, spontaneity, diversity, choice -smack of today's obsession with individual expression for its own sake in ways she scarcely needs to emphasize. So do the proposals the words support. Mill's gospel was that the individual could fulfill himself only in a climate of maximum freedom, and that the fulfillment of the individual was the supreme purpose in life. Could anything sound more contemporary? Indeed, Professor Himmelfarb dares to say that On Liberty has "far more" in common with our times than with Mill...