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...predicate our actions on fear of alienating a segment of campus opinion is to reject democracy and majority rule. It confines student government to a narrow, bureaucratic sphere. This view espoused by the Council's leadership is already taking its toll. We have considered fewer substantive proposals (and more bylaw amendments) during the course of this semester than ever before. And most of our proposals, other than social events, have responded to the work of the College administration rather than to student initiative...
Shultz set the tone for his mission during a preliminary stop in West Berlin. A few hours after he gazed across the Berlin Wall from a makeshift scaffold, the Secretary declared that the U.S. "does not accept the incorporation of Eastern Europe into a Soviet sphere of influence." But Shultz's pronouncement did not signal a new moral crusade. As official U.S. policy, the notion of "liberation" has long since been discredited and abandoned. Administration officials now speak more blandly of "differentiation" between East bloc countries. The aim, like that of every Administration since Lyndon Johnson's, is simply...
...more than three decades, as the frozen mass hurtled along its lonely path, the distant star had grown bigger and brighter in the blackness of space. Now the icy wayfarer was picking up speed, and the star had become a shining yellow sphere, its intense light illuminating the planets circling it. Basking in the rays of the star, the approaching comet warmed, giving off vapors that formed a growing cloud around it. And in the brightening light, the cloud began to glow...
...Institute of Politics sponsored the conference to combine "the practical world of politics with the sphere of academia," said organizer David I. Laibson...
...moment, it looked as though Offutt had achieved a major victory. It looked as though the new chairman had engineered a political realignment, forging a new and unprecedented consensus on the council's proper sphere of action...