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More recently the Crimson in its eagerness to further propagate myths of minority incompetence, rushed to publish parts of the Klitgaard Report, which was incomplete, inaccurate, and degrading to minorities. The Klitgaard Report purported that Black students, who were displacing "more qualified" Jewish students, would be better off at lesser white schools...
...would not use nuclear weapons first in any future conflict have had a definite but still uncertain effect on Reagan. Put on the defensive by a debate on nuclear war that it neither expected nor welcomed, the Administration has been forced to modify the tone, and to a lesser extent the substance, of the approach to arms talks that it would probably have preferred. Several slight substantive modifications can probably be attributed to Reagan's desire to counter the negative imagery which has portrayed him as less interested in negotiations than in preparing for an "inevitable" Armageddon. Examples include...
...loose from the granite Thou Shalt Nots of his forebears, seven generations of New England clergy. The 20th century has apocalyptic fantasies about the end of things. The trajectory of our thoughts tends to be downward. We are transfixed by Auschwitz and Hiroshima and Cambodia and Bangladesh and lesser barbarisms. The 20th century has rarely felt transcendental. What does Emerson's optimism have to say to such a civilization...
Fitzpatrick returns to the family ranch after a stint as a NATO tank captain patroling the Berlin Wall. Borders are just as tense back home. His cantankerous grandfather goes on living and seething beyond his time; a sister with "insufficient resistance to pain of every kind" opts for the lesser agony of suicide. The lonesome cowboy finds purpose only in pursuing Claire, the icy wife of a "vivid . . . piercey-bright, oilman feisty" pseudo-patrón named Tio. The result is McGuane's standard mano á mano struggle in which the prize is less significant than the battle itself...
...Democrats. In all likelihood the government will be headed by a President from ARENA (though not D'Aubuisson, who is generally acknowledged to be too controversial and abrasive for the job) and a Vice President from the P.C.N. The Christian Democrats may be offered a few of the lesser Cabinet posts in return for their support, but it is also possible that they will decide not to join the government and will instead go into opposition. Whatever happens, President Duarte is not expected to have a position of any consequence in the new regime...