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...commitment that has drawn severe criticism from segments of the Harvard community. Critics label RSKU as direct support for one of the world's most repressive regimes. It is reliably reported that agents of the Shah of Iran's secret police, SAVAK, are present in most college classrooms in the country, taking careful note of students who dare to criticize the conventional texts. Keenan says he believes the reports are true about SAVAK's infiltration of Iranian universities, but thinks it may be possible to avoid this lack of academic freedom at RSKU. The new university will be located...
Glucksmann and his colleagues have pasted a totalitarian label on Marxism at a time when Communist parties in Italy and Spain, as well as in France, are talking up their notion of a "Eurocommunism" that is independent of Moscow and ready to accept democratic forms, including elections. Not surprisingly, the French left's reaction has been sharp. The usually left-leaning daily Le Monde has gamely praised the "passionate challenge" raised by the New Philosophers. But the socialist Le Matin has flatly condemned their thinking as "elegant despair" and "a banal form of dandyism." A commentator...
...paranoid delusions of reforming society." This is a mysterious ailment, usually requiring sudden incarceration, that often strikes political dissenters in the U.S.S.R. Since the late '50s, when Khrushchev announced that "there are no political prisoners, only persons of unsound mind," the Soviets have relied on tame psychiatrists to label troublemakers insane...
...firms are experimenting with a variety of customer come-ons. Tenneco stations in the South have opened convenience stores that sell such things as beer and sandwiches. To entice shutterbugs, some Shell stations have installed Fotomat shops next to their pumps. The majors have also started selling private-label gas brands that are not expensively advertised and can be sold at rock-bottom prices. Mobil, for example, has introduced Big Bi and Hi Val gas in some areas. This practice has often put the majors in direct competition with their own stations...
...admits, "No one's made me feel like an outsider, though I obviously am." Nonetheless, Moses is also quick to admit he doesn't "have problems with certain kinds of elitism--putting together the best people, based on talent and merit. But elitism based on connections, and on the label on the back of a tie, is foolish," he says...