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...tone of the meeting was hostile to Union demands. By its end, all professors had tacitly enlisted in Harvard's valiant struggle to made ends meet in the face of the government's indiscriminate cutbacks. In this context, graduate students' efforts to gain more funds sounded like a selfish tactic that merely served to split the ranks in the good fight...
...pathetic feature of Prof. Bell's letter centers on his extraordinary effort to portray himself as a model black faculty member at my expense. This tactic is so cheap that it warrants little comment, save that is is the stock-in-trade of those intellectually and academically dubious. Indeed, no small part of the crisis of black students at Harvard is the exploitation of their situation by black faculty members like Prof. Bell (and some black administrators too) whose presence at Harvard has more to do with their political skills than their scholastic and intellectual reputations. Martin Kilson Professor...
...first Nixon aim was to knock down the chances of Muskie's or Senator Edward Kennedy's becoming his opponent and to build up McGovern, who was rightly considered the easier man to beat. This tactic of interfering in the Democratic campaign was approved by Haldeman. Hunt began probing the intimate backgrounds of the potential Democratic candidates. He investigated Kennedy's accident at Chappaquiddick Island. Hoping to further discredit him, Hunt fabricated a State Department cable falsely stating that President John Kennedy had ordered the assassination in 1963 of South Viet Nam's President Diem. Liddy also joined the sabotage...
...Senate committee member last week, Connecticut Republican Lowell Weicker. Some lawyers suspect that Dean hopes to air his testimony publicly before the committee, then plead that the widespread publicity would make it impossible to find an unbiased jury for any trial on criminal charges. Others too might try this tactic, or seek immunity from the grand jury, creating something of a marketplace for officials trying to avoid jail...
...element of surprise is a time-proven tactic in war. In combat situations one wants to give his enemy as little time to react as possible. But Bok is not running a war--he is running a university-- and it is difficult to understand why he allowed the admirers of Hunt Hall so little time to plan their defense...