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...able to take advantage of the unusual flexibility of the Ed School programs and to shape their studies to their own liking. They experience very little of the pressure of degree requirements, lecture courses, student teachings, and tutorials that face many of the one-year students who will soon confront the alarming realities of the lower schools, and for whom the year at Harvard represents a fantastic cram session that must equip them for their first few years of teaching. And so it is not surprising that it is the one-year people who appraise the situation as being acute...
...found in all underdeveloped countries. Warlordism and military fragmentation is by no means a universal phenomenon in the third world. Many of these states, in spite of their many debilities, do succeed in creating a fairly unified, cohesive and disciplined army. Furthermore, few of these new nations now confront a foreign enemy on their own soil...
...Rusher is still faced with the same monies, parties, and dances that confront Miss Methfessel. More important, both Mrs. Rusher and Miss Methfessel serve as the "faces" of their Houses for freshmen and other visitors. They can solve minor problems of administration that the Masters needn't bother with...
...Election in so far as it relates to Britain's economic situation. The election campaign will focus on domestic issues--industrial growth and organization, immigration, European integration. Given these problems, limitation of defense spending is quite in order. But the real foreign policy issue for the British--which will confront any elected government--is the long-term re-appraisal of Britain's international role. The White Paper on defense is the first attempt to rationalize the concept of overseas strength...
...which evolved their own nationhoods over centuries. The empire builders, for example, never were lashed by the obligation to improve the standard of living of those they ruled. Today the leaders of a new nation are soon in trouble if they do not do so-visibly and dramatically. They confront not one but several revolutions at once-political, economic, social, technological-and are thereby called on to make choices that Western statesmen never had to make. The evidence of how difficult those choices are, and of how unprepared the new nations are to make them, is everywhere at hand...