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...some extent, is membership in Harvard College itself; residence in a sparsely populated state distinguishes many a successful applicant from Great Neck peers consigned to the Other Place.) Those chances once included being of the right sex, income bracket, family, race, and religion. Now only one circumstance remains sine qua non. As the luck of being born female is prerequisite to becoming a Cliffie, that of being born male is necessary to becoming a Clubbie...
...engines of my jet were already turning when Costa Mendez arrived. He drew an envelope from his pocket, advising me to open it after I was airborne. As the wheels lifted off the runway, I read Costa Méndez's words: "It is absolutely essential and conditio sine qua non that negotiations will have to conclude with a result on Dec. 31, 1982. This result must include a recognition of Argentine sovereignty over the islands." Once again, in an exercise of bad faith unique in my experience as a negotiator, the Argentines had gone back on their word...
...face of the warlike Nicaragua-Honduras tension and of the dramatic internal situation in El Salvador, one must try for a dialogue of peace. Peace is not going to solve all the problems, but it is a sine qua non for resolving them. Following pacification, there must be support for pluralism and for elections. Finally, even this will be insufficient without social justice. It is a plan that should be developed and supported by all the countries of the region, by Western Europe...
Game-Winning RBI--Martelli. E--Bauer, DiCesare, Fritchman, Douglas, Tubbs, LOB--Harvard 8, Army 7, 28--Allard, McNamara. 38--Rivera. SB--Reinebold, Clarke, Johnson. IP H R ER BB SO Harvard Larson W, 6-1 7 5 4 0 3 3 Army Sine L, 4-4 7 7 7 5 6 4 PB--Douglas 3. WP--Larson. HBP--Clarke by Larson...
ROTHMAN AND LICHTER gamely confront the historiographical school which catalogues the New Left as merely the peak of some relentless sine curve on a cycle of generational conflict or reformist sentiment. The authors emphasize the restraints on radicalism in America, invoking historian Louis Hartz's conception of a culture which assumes liberalism as a civic religion from the outset. Struggling against the strong currents of moderation, the New Left formulated a coherent criticism of the very premises of the nation's liberal tradition; it thus attracted a massive following of skeptics where earlier 20th century movements on the Left never...