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...does this seemingly rational choice strike a number of you as not understandable, as not entirely rational, as in some sense less a free choice than a compulsion or necessity?” Faust asked. “Why does this seem to be troubling so many...
...staff positions read like a rap sheet, chronicling the paper’s disapproval of Reagan’s supply-side economics and aggressive foreign policy. Meanwhile, the practice of Apartheid persisted in South Africa and spilled into Cambridge, raising questions of divestment and inciting a hunger strike. While the oil shortages of the 70s had faded away, some prescient observers realized that stability was a fleeting phenomenon. Less presciently, many thought that the days of Ted Kennedy’s prominence on the American political scene were over after his 1984 presidential bid went afoul. At the same time...
...Parisians were alarmed last Thursday when Paris police marched on the National Assembly demanding hazard pay for areas in which Algerian terrorists were active. France is a nation which never lets its history die, and the strike awoke fear of a right-wing Gaullist seizure of extra-legal power...
...where being called “idealists” carries the implication “naive”. it may at first seem odd that a group of students should protest Harvard’s ties to South Africa by means of a fast. But the week-long hunger strike is neither idealistic not overly impractical. The fasters have already dramatized on an international scale the indifference of the Harvard Corporation to repeated demands by faculty and students for divestment from companies operating in South Africa. Corporation members Hugh Calkins ‘49 statement that Harvard?...
HILLARY CLINTON Dismissing claims that she was suggesting a tragedy might strike Obama "I was making the simple point that given our history, the length of this year's primary contest is nothing unusual...