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...terms of practical politics, Carter could look forward to a stronger position vis-a-vis Congress, which has balked at many of his programs this year. The President's harassed chief of congressional liaison, Frank Moore, happily noted that the "atmosphere, the mood, the way you are received, has changed in the last couple of days." Confirming that viewpoint, the Senate gave Carter a notable victory last week. It voted more heavily than expected, 59 to 39, against recommitting his natural gas bill to a committee that would have killed it. That favorable tally indicates that the measure will...
...choice, Brecht fashioned a play of high moral intelligence and lasting pertinence. Unlike some of Brecht's obsessively didactic works, Galileo proceeds by the Socratic method, endlessly posing questions and revealing contradictions, the dramatic equivalent of reality confronting illusion. What is the moral responsibility of the scientist vis-à-vis the state or, in Galileo's case, the church? Brecht has Galileo (Laurence Luckinbill) castigate himself toward the end of the play for a failure of integrity: "If only I had resisted! If only the scientists could have developed something like the Hippocratic oath of the physicians...
There are many, many reason to justify this arrangement. The idea is not that regular elections will fail to produce, for example, black or Chicano representatives, but that these groups have, in many cases, special needs vis-a-vis Harvard. Their representatives will specifically address those issues, those needs. Student associations at Brown and at Brandeis failed because at critical times they lost student unity when they lost the support of their campus minority communities. Minority representation in the new student assembly will help guarantee student unity here at important junctures in the future...
That is neither a phrase from a graduate Vis Stud thesis, nor a description of your roommate's girlfriend. Rather, those qualities of the Harvard Square kiosk earned it a place on the National Register of Historical Places this week...
Reports TIME Moscow Bureau Chief Marsh Clark: "The elite here have more of the good things of life vis-a-vis their average countrymen than do the West's richest businessmen in relation to a man on welfare. In the Soviet Union, various grades of apparatchiks have access to special stores that sell imported and otherwise scarce goods at very low prices. Behind a door marked 'Office of Passes' on Granovsky Street not far from the Kremlin, a windowless emporium offers a cornucopia of meats, fruits, vegetables and imported delicacies to the shishki (big shots). The average Ivan and Natasha...