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President Bok himself maintains that "the way in which a university addresses these questions and the answers that it gives are inescapably part of the moral education it imparts to students." If what he says is true, then the President's real message to the students of Harvard is that small acts of daring are, at times like this, futile. When he tells us that we are "naive" and "must all be linked in indirect and innumerable ways to the wrongs of the world--through the goods we buy, the taxes we pay, the services we use, the investments...
Slemrode adds that the bureau's president doesn't tell people what to think but Slemrode suggests that preconceptions can influence results. "My prediction (of the economy's next move) depends on all the assumptions I've had to make. Because that's true I try to test the model with many different assumptions," he explains. Slemrode says that basic to the whole project is the conservative assumption that all markets stay in equilibrium...
...admits. Although recent agreements with Harvard delegated the day-to-day responsibility for the education of undergraduate women to Harvard, members of the Board of Trustees claim that Radcliffe is more influential in the lives of undergraduate women now than it ever has been. But if that's true, something has been lost in the translation...
...politician's watchful calculation of it. The two intersect in Congress, which seems to be dissolving into dreary incoherence. Congress, with its delicate Geiger counters of mood all activated and ticking gently, refused even to grant the Administration stand-by authority to ration gas-although it is true that Carter's approach on that subject was notably clumsy...
...True, Jimmy Carter has delivered a number of soliloquies on the "moral equivalent of war," but the attributes of war remain absent. The problem seems abstract to Americans, except when gas prices rise and stations close...