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...next morning, students called for the faculty to strike. Although the faculty did not officially sanction student demands, enough avoided campus to effectively shut down the university for three weeks...
...decided to be participants. But whatpunishment did we get for violating the rights ofthe recruiter and the waiting interviewees? It wassomething called "probation"--a penalty obviouslydevised for academic miscreants since the onlyreal sanction was that we couldn't be officers ina Harvard organization for a semester...
What he failed to add is that experience also shows that sanction have never brought down a totalitarian regime. Sanctioned leaders from Baghdad to Havana can attest to that...
Instead Clinton will muddle through and in the process further muddy the meaning of a Presidential ultimatum. In theory, certain specific classes of products will be subject to a duty, although there is no indication that such selective sanction are administratively feasible. Practical concerns of execution are irrelevant, since the application of this ballyhooed wrist-slapping is aimed only at impressing the voting public, not depressing the Chinese economy...
...next morning, students called for the faculty to strike, Although the faculty did not officially sanction student demands, enough avoided campus to effectively shut down the university for three weeks...