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...short, you are widely regarded as anti-Japanese. This should not put you in a defensive mood (not that you are much given to that posture), for this would merely compound the mutual suspicions. Nor should you believe that the mere gesture of devoting four days of your precious time to them will convince the Japanese that you really regard them as the U.S.'s "most important ally in Asia." Your hosts would like instead some clear answers on how they fit into the Nixon-Kissinger scheme of a multipolar power balance. Although their feelings are ambivalent, they...
...long run by flamboyant Charles Engelhard, who before his death last year built up a billion-dollar business, mostly as an international trader and fabricator of precious metals. Engelhard does much business with Anglo-American Corp. of South Africa Ltd., which owns 30% of Engelhard's common stock and is run by Harry Oppenheimer, the South African mining magnate. But Rosenthal clearly would welcome any new business. Last year, on revenues of $1.5 billion, the company's earnings dropped from $36 million to $28 million...
...general feeling among the undergraduate body, which is that faculty, especially professors, would rather not spend time discussing undergraduate work. Obviously there are many exceptions to this feeling, and rightfully so. And even if there weren't it cannot be denied that the time of senior faculty members is precious. However, I believe it is not asking too much to be granted a fifteen or twenty minute interview to discuss a paper that is sometimes as long as two years in the making...
Common gossip says that youngsters are engaging in sexual intercourse earlier these days than they used to, but there has been precious little statistical evidence to back it up. Now Johns Hopkins Demographers Melvin Zelnik and John Kantner have come up with some firm data. After studying the sexual habits of unmarried teen-age girls, they announced last week that virginity is indeed outmoded. If the study sample is representative, almost half of all single American girls become non-virgins before they...
This is not to suggest that the formula I offer will have easy consequences--for there is, of course, no easy way out of our present Southeast Asian crisis. But it can, under the right leadership, move us gradually toward something new and precious: a tempering of our national grandiosity, an end to our special sense of benevolence as a nation--an erosion of the ugly qualities that accompany such overweaning confidence, including excessive fear of "loss" or "failure". It can lead, in time, toward a new national maturity: a sense that we are only one of many, and that...