Word: subjects
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Associate Editor John Leo, who suggested and wrote this week's story, first became fascinated with the subject during his college years at the University of Toronto. He was studying modern philosophy at the time, but a chance encounter with a paperback on Freud sent him burrowing through the master's voluminous collected works. Says Leo: "Here were the philosophers playing their bloodless word games, and Freud saying all these amazing things about real life." Now he is convinced that the three greatest thinkers of all time were Aristotle, Freud and Groucho Marx...
...hearings of the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources, the subject was world oil supplies, but Democratic Senator Frank Church was so peeved by the economic failures of his own Administration that he swept the horizon: "We are running up the largest balance of payments deficit in our history and watching the dollar fade on the international markets. I just think it's an absolutely inexcusable failure of performance...
...recruiting drives fell 10% short of meeting their goals in the last quarter of 1978. Far more worrisome, the Army's reserves are shockingly below strength. The Army's Individual Ready Reserve, composed of men who have completed their active duty but are subject to quick call-up, is supposed to number 700,000, but actually has fewer than 200,000. That shortage could be critical. The IRR would supply replacements for soldiers killed or wounded in the early weeks of war, and, as the Arab-Israeli clash in 1973 proved, modern weapons can cause heavy casualties...
...price of all this hardware remained subject to bargaining. Said Defense Secretary Harold Brown: "You've heard a lot of figures and you'll hear a lot more." Illinois Republican Congressman Robert Michel went further, predicting: "When all the diplomatic fine print is exposed, every one of Carter's bear hugs with Sadat and Begin will cost the American taxpayer a billion dollars or more...
...plan would allow students to work in any subject while at foreign universities--currently, half of the work a student does abroad must be in his field of concentration. The committee would also be allowed to grant Core Curriculum and distribution credits for work done abroad...