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...failure to provide adequate rehearsal facilities. The Music Department should devote more of its resources to the practice of the art it is named for, by expanding its program in performance to meet the demand. Harvard need not provide financial support for its musical groups, and direct subsidization might weaken the healthy diversity that now exists in musical life here. But Harvard must end its niggardly, hostile policy of charging them for the use of its facilities...
...decree reaffirmed Paul's ban on conclave voting by cardinals who have reached age 80. But otherwise it was a strategic victory for stand patters, who feared that any participation by the bishops would weaken the power of the College of Cardinals and the Vatican Curia. Another papal move: the assistants who previously accompanied the cardinals into the conclave will henceforth be excluded. However traditionalist, the Pope's decree struck one modern note. Two technicians must check the conclave quarters for "instruments of whatsoever kind for recording, reproduction or transmission of voices and images." In other words...
...emotionally and sexually dependent upon men, and to keep men competitive and hostile toward each other. For the people who rule this country, defending traditional sex roles is not joking matter. Male-defined sex roles keep women down within the family and divide workers against each other--conditions which weaken the ability of the working class to control its own destiny. Women's resistance to sexism, especially the post-1965 feminist movement, thus strengthens those of us who seek to build socialist democracy in America. And surely, the feminist movement has been crucial to the rise of the mass...
...nothing else the Rambouillet meeting is an important symbol of world leaders' willingness at least to consult each other on policy and avoid conflicts that might weaken the global economy. The gathering might also produce a useful reaffirmation by the government heads that they will resist growing pressure in every country for import quotas and other self-defeating protectionist measures...
California's Bank of America, criticizing Ford, called default "an unacceptable alternative" that would weaken the economy's recovery and further inflate the federal deficit by forcing the Government to make emergency loans and increase welfare payments. But Wriston called Ford's program "highly responsible" and predicted that "the effects of default are containable" and would have "minimal" impact on major New York banks, which hold a total of $2 billion in city and Big Mac debt. According to an estimate by Wall Street analysts, Chairman David Rockefeller's Chase Manhattan is worst off, holding...