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...that simplicity lie the great imponderables?and the ultimate fascination?of the fight. Can Ali, slowed but still the swiftest heavyweight around, dance out of destruction's way? Can he utilize his superior reach to stave off the bull-like onslaught of his attacker? Can he ever wear down the relentless machine that is Joe Frazier? Conversely, can Ali, who is able to hit sharply with either hand, outgun Frazier, who is more a one-armed fighter? Can, in short, the boxer beat the slugger...
...failure of the U.S. welfare system is also, in large measure, a defeat for liberalism?not for its goal or faith but for its methods. The system was begun as an absolute necessity and did stave off disaster in the Depression. In 1935, when unemployment had reached 11.11% of the population. Congress passed Franklin Roosevelt's Social Security Act. It included aid to the unemployed, the old, the blind, and children dependent on adults who could no longer care for even themselves. Unemployment-insurance benefits were, and still are, a dismal way station for many on the road to total...
...cities illustrate most clearly how the Democrats need a whole new strategy of public control to stave off social disaster. At present, the urban crisis falls into a no man's land of divided municipal, state, and federal authorities. None of them are held responsible for the urban problem, and it is curious that Galbraith barely mentions the cities. The Democrats have failed to build a broad national constituency for urban programs. At the local level, faced with the defection of the suburbs and satellite towns, the cities suffer from a shrinking tax base and a slow loss of political...
THERE are many, however, who themselves are skeptical that Brewster can do at Harvard what he has done at Yale. First of all, he entered Yale without any reputation to live up to or enemies to stave off. His reputation is now well established; were he to come to Harvard, he would be expected to at least meet that reputation and most probably surpass...
THERE are many, however, who themselves are skeptical that Brewster can do at Harvard what he has done at Yale. First of all, he entered Yale without any reputation to live up to or enemies to stave off. His reputation is now well established; were he to come to Harvard, he would be expected to at least meet that reputation and most probably surpass...