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...return?" "Who-him?" Finally, Kael is accused of a tendency to wander, hogging space in the magazine until "other pieces, on which serious intermittent writers had worked for years, were being overwhelmed." Why did Adler go to such pains to skewer Kael? Some associates say she merely wants to uphold The New Yorker's usually high standards. Others cite personal differences with Kael. Adler is not talking...
...troubled state of relations between the U.S. and its allies: We in the alliance have no reason to indulge in self-tormenting thoughts or in meekness. On the contrary, we must uphold with self-confidence, courage and decision our joint goals and ideals. Our alliance is not an interchangeable military alliance in the old style. It rests on an identity of values and interests...
After the fall of Saigon the victorious General Vo Nguyen Giap's advice to his men was to "uphold the spirit of socialist labor, and together with the rest of the people zealously take part in economic reconstruction." The soldiers never got the chance. The promised demobilization of Hanoi's forces has yet to take place. As a result of Viet Nam's 1978 invasion of Cambodia, more than 200,000 troops are tied down in that country. Another 50,000 have become an apparently permanent occupying force in Laos. Those expeditionary forces are merely the most...
...either--the First Amendment is absolutely drawn, and guarantees the rights of even the smallest minorities. If one student wants to show Deep Throat, he should have that freedom without the fear of legal prosecution. And it challenged, he or she should go ahead and show the film--to uphold the First Amendment for others...
...daughter decided in favor of Cambridge, for a variety of reasons; but the incident illustrates the sort of attitudinal disparity that currently plagues Ivy League sports, slowly eroding them, especially here, where Harvard struggles to uphold academic ideals in the face of ever-increasing athletic competitiveness...