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Harvard spent the early part of the game adjusting its speed to the slippery conditions of the field. Both mud and taped ribs slowed Hotchkin's usually explosive style, but junior Ramy Rajballie picked up the slack from his position at right midfield...
...other buildings in New York, in other cities, in all the cities, new screams will take up the slack. Sometimes the authorities will respond, sometimes not. The beating of women and children will continue in the hidden boxes of apartments: evil, secret noise. You will hear the scream, and someone else will tell you that it wasn't a scream, it was a kettle whistle; and no one will be sure if there ever was a scream, until a body lies in evidence. How is the citizen-listener to react? Rush wildly through the corridors until the sound is unmistakable...
Another point of possible weakness is Jackson'slack of experience in elective political office.But the candidate has downplayed the issue, andsaid at Harvard earlier this month, "I bring thecapacity to shape concensus and articulate policy.A leader must project the vision for the nationand have the power to act in times of crisis...
...American scheme of things, Congress should have a powerful voice. Congress has drearily been undistinguished, afflicted by the spirit of the age. It is a much fragmented assortment of 634 individuals, each with separate interests and agendas. Party discipline is slack...
...against the U.S. for international capital during the period when the U.S. is slowly weaning itself from dependence on foreign borrowing. That course is necessary for other reasons: Japan, West Germany and possibly other exporting countries would need to stimulate their own economies to take up the slack if a lower American trade deficit reduced their sales to the U.S. Rimmer de Vries, chief international economist of Morgan Guaranty Trust, puts the case for such international cooperation succinctly: "A global economy needs global management...