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...tenuous case can be made that the Administration is taking a harder line on human rights excesses in El Salvador. But the White House's recent attempts to sell aims to the rightist regime in Guatemala and destabilize the leftist government in Nicaragua are telling signs of the President's dangerous mindset...
Frustrated by early foul trouble, the hoopsters played a tenuous game, grabbing briefly at the chance for their first victory in two weeks--and then letting go. Against a UMass starting line-up that boasted four freshman over 5-ft., 7-in, tall, the Crimson simply never took control of the game...
...company, as usual, acquits itself competently. No single actor steals the show or dazzles with thespian brilliance, but all-perform convincingly. Karen MacDonald as Natasha is appropriately flamboyant and flouncing. Cheryl Giannini manages very well the tenuous connection between Masha's existential misery and her womanly love for Lieutenant Coloral Vershinin (Alvin Epstein...
...council is to be commended for demanding the immediate opening of the sessions, as it did last night; failing to do so would have endangered its own tenuous legitimacy. Council Chairman Michael G. Colantuono '83 said recently that "If the committees cannot meet in public, I think the council should take whatever means necessary to address the situation, up to and including withdrawal of our delegates." Colantuono is, of course, correct, and he and the council's other delegates should boycott subsequent meetings of the student faculty committees if efforts at opening the sessions fail. Harvard's first student government...
...signing the General Agreement on Trade and Tariffs (GATT). Haunted by the memories of the high tariff policies of the Great Depression and persuaded by the arguments of free trade economics, almost all the world's noncommunist countries have agreed that protectionism is a dirty word. But the tenuous consensus reached in Geneva last Monday by the GATT ministers fails to break down trade barriers. Instead, it just sweeps them under...