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Wilkinson's swipe--the 17th interception for the Crimson this year--gave Harvard just the spark it needed to pull away from Penn and take home a 17-6 victory and a share of first place in the Ivy League...
...called X- ray lasers "the one and only proposal that makes any sense." He cautions, however, that the obstacles to developing an actual weapon are "fantastic," and repeated last week his view that SDI threatens "a big new escalation" in the arms race. For good measure, he took a swipe at Edward Teller, his colleague from the World War II atom-bomb project who is now a promoter of Star Wars in general and X-ray lasers in particular. Teller, said Bethe, was the scientist "who brought us the H-bomb with the statement that it will...
...years. As a brash undergraduate at Columbia, he once confronted the august philosopher John Dewey so sharply on a theological issue that the great man stormed from the room growling, "Nobody is going to tell me how to love God." In Ten Philosophical Mistakes Adler makes only an occasional swipe at Dewey and leaves God pretty much alone. But he takes on Locke, Hume, Rousseau, Hobbes, Marx and a passel of other post-16th century thinkers, whose common and "disastrous" mistake, says Adler, was to invent new kinds of wisdom without building on the ancient truths. "The modern philosophers start...
Owen, 30, a free-lance writer and author of the 1981 book High School: Under Cover with the Class of '80, is sometimes indiscriminate and intemperate in his attack. He takes a swipe at just about everything that E.T.S. is and does. In addition, his criticisms of the SAT include the familiar but debatable contention that it is based on a white, upper-middle-class, suburban point of view, thus penalizing blacks and other urban minorities...
...plan's surprise swipe at Social Security would hold cost of living adjustments (COLAs) to 2% next year, instead of a projected 4%, unless inflation is higher than expected. Diet Cola is the latest nickname for the complex new formula, which is already under fire from retirees' associations. Pensions for military and civil service retirees, attacked by Stockman when he presented the President's original budget, would also come under this formula. The President says he will support the new plan, which goes against his clear- cut campaign promise not to touch retirees' benefits. Demanded Democratic Congressman Claude Pepper...