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Kucinich is the local product who best qualifies Cleveland for national attention. He is the most firmly progressive of America's big-city mayors, and this marks him as a leading target for media ridicule. Next Tuesday he will be doing what he has practiced throughout his tenure: fighting for his political life. The nation ought to be watching the election to monitor a unique contemporary experiment in populism, not just to catch more of the mayor's antics. The press delights in portraying Kucinich as a sort of political punk-rocker: he's rude, he's vicious...
However, improved social relations were only a by-product of co-residency and the end of parietals, Molony says. "The most important change is that women have become much more an accepted part of the University rather than an appendage." The eventual end of the quota system made women full-fledged members of the Harvard community, and at the same time provided them unprecedented freedom to interact responsibly with Harvard men. This stands in sharp contrast to the parietal system, where women lived in a structure designed to check up on their social lives. As Rosenblum says, "It was just...
...addition, serious questions remain as to how to dispose of the ton of waste rock that is a by-product of every barrel of synthetic fuel produced. And such projects would also consume enormous quantities of water, a resource as scarce to the West as oil is to New England...
Carter Administration officials are remarkably untalkative about the record rates, evidently in hopes that the developing downturn will become known as the Volcker Recession rather than as a product of Jimmynomics. Indeed, voters do seem concerned about the climbing cost of money. One night last week, when Volcker arrived at Washington's Kennedy Center for a preview showing of Tom Stoppard's play Night and Day, a woman approached him and said plaintively, "Please, don't let interest rates stay high for too long." Replied the Federal Reserve chairman, as he removed the cellophane from...
Some of the portents are ominous. To begin with, less money is flowing into pure science. While U.S. investment in basic research and development declined from 3% of the gross national product in 1964 to only 2.2% last year, the rate in West Germany, which has averaged 3%, rose last year to 3.2%. Between 1965 and 1977 the investment in Japan rose from...