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Harvard's second choice is to support a proxy resolution against an ecologically-unsafe power plant. Although the University should spearhead a proxy fight anyway, if only for symbolic purposes, proxy fights are an inefficient and usually ineffective means of reform. Shareholders might care about the water and the air, but they care about money a whole lot more...
...Shockley proposes, is not an idea in the pure sense. Eugenics is sterilization of immigrants, of Jews in Germany, of black people in the U.S. today. Although Shockley's article uses racist logic to call for sterilization, eugenics measures affect white as well as blacks. Eugenics can be the spearhead of fascism as in Germany, where millions of Jews and non-Jews died in World...
...purpose of the dramatic assault quickly became clear. In a surprise push, the Israelis sent a spearhead of tanks and armor across the canal just north of the Bitter Lakes to the western bank. The goal of the task force was to destroy missile and artillery sites in Egypt and harass the supply lines that nourished the Egyptian divisions in the Sinai. The Israelis quickly resupplied the infiltration commando force with tanks, halftracks and artillery, first by barge and later across bridges hastily constructed north of the Great Bitter Lake. By week's end the force...
...reputation as a bastion of democracy, it seemed not entirely surprising that the country should have laws restricting Jesuits. After all, Geneva was once the home of Protestant Reformer John Calvin's stern theocracy, and the Jesuits (TIME, April 23) became a sort of spiritual Marine Corps to spearhead the Roman Catholic Counter Reformation...
...regime. Only the army could oust Papadopoulos, and it is still firmly controlled by the junta. Clearly, though, the government no longer controls the minds of the students, who seem to have been radicalized by events of recent weeks. As one leader put it last week: "We are the spearhead of the whole political movement now!" The mosquitoes, in short, are biting back...