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Because Harvard has traditionally required high academic standards from entering athletes and the University is not a particularly prominent member of the NCAA. Bok says as chairman he could strongly urge his ACE group to consider specific recommendations, then act as a neutral mediator without charges of self-interest. "I certainly played a role in getting these presidents together and persuading them they need to look seriously at these problems, and I will continue to do that as long as they're willing to cooperate and that we still have problems left to resolve," he adds...
...attempt to limit Soviet throw weight. "Warheads and throw weight go hand in hand," he said in an interview with TIME on the eve of his departure for Geneva. While calling his job "one of the toughest around," Rowny is convinced that for reasons of their own military self-interest, the Soviets may yet accept an agreement based on the U.S. proposal. Says Rowny: "What we're asking them to do is pay now and buy later...
...hastily arranged bailout plan revealed the bankers' concern for the health of the U.S. financial system, which is straining under a troubling load of bad foreign and domestic loans. Said one participating lender: "We were motivated to do something out of self-interest. The more smoothly this thing is handled, the better...
...ruminations on U.S. Soviet relationships in the chapter on Khruschev and Brezhnev, for example, are moderate if self-congratulatory in their defense of detente. Nixon only predictably lambasts the "superdoves" but also lashes out at the "superhawks," in a not-too-subtle Jab at the strident Reagan approach to dealing with the Soviets. A "hard-headed detente" is the best strategy the U.S. could adopt in this nuclear age, he creditably argues When Nixon sets aside ideology and self-interest partially (he can never do it fully), he does prove insightful and at times persuasive. Such glimpses...
...protectionism - have be come inert and somewhat pointless. The best approach is one of subtle, intelligent and infinitely imaginative flexibility. The U.S. has its responsibilities as the economic power of the world. But it can still negotiate and persuade and improvise in the cause of its enlightened, aggressive self-interest. By Lance Morrow