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...Trudeau is a superb campaigner when he gears up. Canadians, often offended by his intellectual arrogance, were surprised when he singlehandedly turned around the country's mood from one of cynicism to one of confidence. The opposition and Progressive Conservative Party leader at the time was Robert Stanfield, a long-time member of Parliament from Eastern Canada. Stanfield's strategy rested upon a poorly-conceived, loosely-defined economic platform designed to control inflation. Stanfield said he planned to institute wage and price controls--but he didn't explain how he would implement them or how they would work. Trudeau hammered...
...Canadian media had no clever one-word explanations for the impeccably bilingual Montrealer's triumph. Yet he soon instituted wage and price controls and the Anti-Inflation Board after humiliating Stanfield on the very same issue. The romance ended abruptly. And Trudeau has been fighting for his political life ever since...
Karl W. Deutsch, Stanfield Professor of International Peace, said the University should follow a procedure similar to the one proposed in the Faculty letter, because Harvard is perceived as "a flagship in the U.S. and the rest of the world...
...only comment from the Faculty on the report came from Karl W. Deutsch, Stanfield Professor of International Peace. Deutsch asked that the proposed center on teaching also be called a center for learning. "Not only do we need people who know how to offer a good menu, we also need guests who know how to order," he said...
...Stanfield agreed with Clarke about Quebec's economic prospects as a separate nation. "Maybe there are some Quebecers who believe that Quebec would be healthier economically apart from Canada, but they are deluding themselves," he said. He also took a backhanded slap at the present government's economic policies, claiming that "if the economy of Canada is weak...[the separatists] will feel they have nothing to lose economically. A strong, healthy economy would be an attraction to Quebecers...