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...must congratulate both Diane M. Cardwell, on the editorial piece. "Style Over Substance" (5/13/83), and your staff. Ms. Cardwell's editorial was well written and informative. Rather than abrasively leaving her readers to feel pity for her or humored. Ms. Cardwell made valid points that encourage her readers to seriously evaluate her argument. I congratulate your staff on having selected this article to be printed within the formal confines of the paper--a reflection of wisdom, sound judgment, and GOOD TASTE! Also, in the edition on Thursday, May 12, the article. "Faculty Council Hears Minority Reps," by Michael J. Abramowitz...
...average age of our 39 Presidents when they took office is 55. The youngest was Theodore Roosevelt, who made it at 42, thanks to an assassin. John Kennedy, at 43, was the youngest elected President. The oldest is Reagan. The sample is too small to support a valid statistical trend. Yet a glance at this century's Chief Executives and their Inaugural ages suggests that the presidency is growing grayer (unless Reagan passes along the secret of his Hollywood hair): Theodore Roosevelt, 42; Taft, 51; Wilson, 56; Harding, 55; Coolidge, 51; Hoover, 54; Franklin Roosevelt, 51; Truman, 60; Eisenhower...
...Irish-American governors of Illinois (Charles Deneen--1905, Edward Dunne--1913), or Boston Irish who vote as a bloc to elect the first Irish American governor and U.S. Senator in Massachusetts (David Walsh after World War 1). Such ethnic-bloc voting (or its equivalent among women voters) is a valid means in a democracy for the political empowerment of ethnic groups who must overcome the vicious forms of ethnic subordination and negation imposed upon then within American society. And, of course, it is hardly necessary to belabor the point that Afro-Americans have endured enormous ethnic subordination...
Federal law currently recognizes no valid medical uses for cannabis, placing it in a class with toxic addictive narcotics such as heroin. In general the speakers at the Marijuana and Health Symposium recommended the revision of public policy to bring it into line with medical understanding. Dr. Tod Mikuriya, formerly in charge of cannabis research for the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), asserted that we have--"not a drug problem--we're dealing with a problem based upon ignorance, denial, hypocrisy, and special-interest greed." He recommended comprehensive drug law reform, including the "repeal of all exemptions from product...
...Administration has plotted its course in Geneva with two questions in mind, both, in and of themselves, perfectly valid: 1) What is in the military interests of the U.S. and its allies? and 2) What is necessary to satisfy the domestic and allied demand for good-faith American effort in arms control...