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Pasztor levels serious charges at the CRIMSON as a newspaper and at some specific members of its staff as reporters. First, he alleges that there is a "general CRIMSON policy of blatant distortion and outright falsification of news in its coverage of SJP activities," This charge is baseless and absurd. The CRIMSON has no policy toward SJP or any other group. Our reporters are free to report the truth as they...
...polishes his near-perfect Danish, and hopes to become a Danish citizen and get a teaching job. "As a person I am just happy," he says. "We Americans suffer from a tendency to hail what is one hundred percent, but nothing is ever one hundred percent, and life is absurd, and that is the way it should...
ONLY the Indochina War-described recently by a veteran as "the biggest nothing in history"-could have produced a book like James Park Sloan's War Games, a callous yet strangely sensitive autobiographical narrative of a young "tough-minded" soldier's attempts to cope with the brutally absurd...
...words of welcome for the Mayday forces. "The 'give peace a chance' gang had their day last week and now they are gone," said a Hatchet editorial entitled "Forget It." "A new crowd is in town now . . . They have plans that we find disturbing, self-defeating and absurd...
...overwhelmed by foreign competition. Washington at present has no overall policy, but tries to tackle trade problems one by one as they pop up. A sensible step would be to accept the Japan Textile Federation's unilateral offer to restrict cloth shipments to the U.S. It is absurd for the U.S. and Japan to squabble fiercely over textiles, because that industry is not vital to the economy of either nation. Simultaneously, the U.S. could crack down harder on dumping in several industries, perhaps by flatly embargoing shipments, though it would be much wiser to do that on a company...