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...strongly held set of beliefs that he has at times imposed even over the unanimous opposition of his advisers. In foreign affairs the President has little experience and at times seems to lack the intense interest he displays in domestic concerns. He has preferred to govern in the foreign sphere by consensus, letting advisers argue out their views in front of him and deciding now in favor of one, now for another...
...students more of a voice in tenure and tutorial decisions. It could have put students in control of funds that the dean of students now doles out. And it could have stripped centralized student government of the trivial and ultimately unsuccessful social activities that were its predecessor's only sphere of influence and that precluded the assembly from meriting a reputation as a serious deliberative body...
...military arm. Another Soviet team was dispatched to assist in rebuilding the country's devastated economy. Now the Soviets, in their boldest ploy to date, are pressing Iran to sign a mutual cooperation pact that would effectively draw Khomeini's revolutionary government into Moscow's sphere of influence...
...seems rather silly, then, that the rivalry should be embodied solely in one football game. Why not make The Weekend of The Game a period for intercollegiate competition between Yale and Harvard in every sphere with all groups at one school doing battle with their counterparts at the other? The competition could go on all weekend at either Soldiers Field or the Yale Bowl, depending on whose year it was to play host...
Competition in the academic sphere would have to be more directed, however. English professors would be given passages of poetry and prose to explicate or, better yet, a few obscure quotations to identify and provide short (one-or-two-sentence) explanations as to their significance...