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...danger of poltical and ethnic militancy to a great university is that they distort the quality of those delicate relationships and sensibilities that sustain a great university. Indeed, those who adopt militancy as a style of behavior within a university do so precisely because they, for whatever reasons, no longer comprehend the behavioral requisites of a great university. Thus for them a new raison d'etre becomes imperative: the logic of militant confrontation runs its civility-destroying course...
...give-and-take is a crucial feature of America's success at fashioning pluralistic solutions to the conflicting claims of its numerous ethnic subcultures. Over time this process has allowed successive generations of Americans to design a dialectically unique cultural-political synthesis which is general or universal enough to sustain a successful nation-state yet parochial enough to nourish a kaleidoscopic subsystem of ethnic particularisms--some originating and gaining substance solely within the American nation (e.g., Mormons...
They were bolstered by long soul-searching talks with their other two children and their Roman Catholic parish priest. Father Thomas Trapasso advised them that there was "no moral obligation to use extraordinary means to sustain life when there is no realistic hope of some recovery." But when the Quinlans asked doctors to let their daughter die, the doctors refused. Karen was not a minor, they said, and they might be held responsible for her death...
Whatever the text of this week's resolution, the U.S. now has an opportunity to sustain the momentum toward conciliation and consensus by pushing its proposals at forums with considerably more power than the U.N. General Assembly−the IMF'S monetary talks, the negotiations on trade and tariffs, and the producer-consumer conference on energy and raw materials that is expected to convene later this year in Paris...
Such talk is heartening to Smith's white electorate, but it may not sustain his beleaguered country much longer. The guerrilla war being waged by impatient blacks is expected to intensify later this year. The black rulers of newly independent Mozambique are in a position to close their ports to Rhodesian trade whenever they choose, and the pressure from South Africa is bound to continue. Vorster, convinced of the need for an accommodation with black Africa, has already removed 2,000 South African paramilitary policemen from Rhodesia. He has also succeeded in persuading South African cigarette-makers to reduce...