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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Houses have reached an impasse. It may not be healthy--it's certainly not legal--to hold happy hours, but they are the one type of activity that will draw most House residents. To maintain House social life, students are searching for every loophole they can find to keep alcohol, and the masters, through creative enforcement of the ban on liquor, are coming as close to condoning the students as they can without defying the law. Ed King may be able to railroad the legislature; he has a long way to go before he can conquer Harvard...
...although the game proved far from artistic, an away win is always valuable. "We've lost those type of games often, so it's nice to win one," Sanacore said...
Bravo for the wealth of insights in Mr. Kissinger's excerpts. Perhaps I am a typical American who "tends to see international relations in terms of the play of individual personalities," but I wish that Mr. Kissinger would write some of the same type of clear and precise in-depth reviews of world leaders and geopolitical situations on some sort of regular basis...
Contrary to Kissinger's pragmatic approach, I think the current Administration's consideration of human rights as a foreign policy is a growing force. Our degree of support for a particular government depends more and more upon its consideration of human rights rather than the type of government...
Some economists now wonder if the nation has so successfully insulated itself from a 1929-type depression that it is condemned to 13% or worse inflation. Robert Heilbroner argues that the postwar measures to avoid another Crash and Depression have "put a floor under the downward movement of the economy." This guarantee against disaster, in Heilbroner's view, has changed economic expectations so much that corporations raise prices and unions demand higher wages more recklessly than they otherwise would. The result is faster inflation. Thus the cure for the Great Crash, seen from this perspective, has created side effects...