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...superpower relations--even to the point of coloring current arguments over the INF and START treaties. Politicians, scholars, and journalists have turned to the Crisis to draw out lessons about nuclear weapons, diplomacy, and crisis management. The publication of surprising evidence in this winter's International Security--a transcript of secret tapes which recorded the meetings of top Kennedy Administration advisers during the Crisis--shows that most interpretations of the October 1962 event have been wrong...
While the episode may have squelched doubts about Bush's fortitude, it seems to have revived doubts about his role in the Iran-contra affair. A reading of the confrontation's transcript suggests that Bush was evasive, while Rather seemed knowledgeable and persistent. In television, style overwhelms substance, image replaces information. But as the sense of a showdown between Bush and the evil anchorman began to subside, perceptions began to change...
...instance, my term bill last semester--$8000, plus two dollars for lost keys, one dollar for the library, and another two dollars to cover the cost of giving me a copy of my transcript. Now, no intensely self-respecting institution such as Harvard would ever demean itself so far as to nickel-and-dime the same students who pay over $16,000 each year to live in overcrowded dorms. Unless tradition was involved...
...tradition of nickel-and-diming the students began at Harvard's inception. The then-president of the University decided, as an April Fools joke, to pretend to charge the students for lost i.d. cards, keys, transcript requests, and every other little thing imaginable. When the president then passed away under mysterious circumstances during a closed Board of Overseers meeting, the information that the charges were meant as a joke somehow never surfaced, though today everyone at Harvard is aware of the real story. The tradition of inflicting petty charges on students has become such a part of the Harvard mystique...
...know, I know: on your transcript it says that you took Rice Paddies. But do you really have a comprehensive overview of Chinese history, politics, art, and society from 2000 B.C. until the present? Or do you possess only a vague feeling of having been bored once in a huge lecture hall while slides of vases flashed on a distant screen...