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...Supreme Court ruling was a bad one, not necessarily from a moral standpoint, because everyone is entitled to their feelings on the subject, but because it left the original 1973 ruling saying, essentially, anybody who wants an abortion can have one, if she can afford...
Speaking from the standpoint of a Jew, I can only say after reading about Abe Ribicoff's fight for Carter's Middle East plane package: With Jews like him, who needs anti-Semites...
...Creeping professionalism. This is not the place to address the question of the desireability, from the standpoint of Harvard or from the standpoint of the American government, of the new improved version of the Business School for bureaucrats. Still, even if budgets do not overlap, it should be clearly recognized that the present administration's preoccupation with the Kennedy School represents a spiritual commitment to areas tangential not only to undergraduate education but also to most areas of graduate education within the Faculty of Arts and Sciences...
Namo and I initially stepped back and started to analyze the scene from a sociological standpoint, being effete Eastern intellectuals. But it is the king of pace that defies analysis in its simplicity; the sophomore from Ohio State had summed up the place's raison d'etre as well as anything we could say. So, the second day there, Namo and I were beeping and hooting and prowling the discos with the rest of the common animals. If you can't analyze 'em, join...
...Thomas Jefferson with people we really don't have to name, it raises the question of whether a Constitution written by men with one set of values can still operate in the 20th century." Burns especially hopes that Project 87 will study the Constitution not from the traditional standpoint of what America can teach other countries but with a focus on what the U.S. can learn from them...