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...Well, I just sent her in to check his vital signs and put him to sleep...
...from the Republican tradition of fiscal conservatism and increased defense spending. Carter’s defeat represents a setback for the Democratic Party in the short run, certainly, and Reagan’s election presents troubling prospects for the next four years. But 1980 offers, with bitter finality, a vital lesson for Democratic leaders as the party regroups for the next decade: that for the Democratic Party to get out its voters and mobilize its power, it must take Democratic stands and nominate Democratic candidates. For future reference, this means that the party’s presidential nominee should...
...Overseers...are a vital part, along with the Corporation, of the ‘eyes and ears’ that allow for the effective Governance of the University,” he writes...
...faster it could come to fruition, the better. Perhaps it was Summers’ experience away from the academy, first at the helm of the Treasury Department and as the World Bank’s chief economist prior to that, that made him uniquely in touch with the most vital issues of our era. Summers frequently suggested that future textbooks would look back on our time as the era of a life sciences revolution and an age of rapid globalization. These ideas resonated with idealistic students set on making their mark on the world and with the public at large...
Expansion loomed as the major problem, and an essentially insoluble one. While The Crimson’s efforts to clear up the problem were not entirely successful, a few general conclusions were reached. Expansion, which seems to be approaching inexorably, must not undermine the most vital and distinctive features of Harvard education: the tutorial system, adequate library facilities, and, most importantly, adequate housing space to provide for concentrated private study. To preserve these valued institutions while recognizing the inevitability of enlargements, the University must do some really long-range planning. Meanwhile, expansion aside, an eighth house is absolutely necessary...