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...news to both. The 1948 history relates that the Journal scooped The Crimson with an extra on the death of Dean Briggs, and again with coverage of a student demonstration against a German cruiser at the Navy Yard. The Journal was trapped into a defense of the status quo in the face of a Crimson expose of the Engineering School; The Crimson in turn, lost popularity with its defense of the right of F.E.S. (Putzi) Hanfstaengl, '09. Hitler's piano player, to return for his 25th reunion. On the whole, the Journal was more a crusading paper. The Crimson more...
...negotiations place the U.S. in a dilemma. For as a quid pro quo for any agreement, Castro insists on a promise that the U.S. will curb the activities of Cuban exile groups in Florida, which, he charges, have attacked Cuban coastline villages and fishing vessels and helped people escape from Cuba. That means that the U.S., which has always cherished its tradition of giving asylum, now must decide-whether to turn back refugees from Cuba...
WITH THE FCC ALREADY in its pocket, the interest groups would like to prevent the Mass. Cable Commission from taking up any of the important issues facing the industry. They will be perfectly satisfied to have cable TV take the same road as broadcast TV preserving the status quo and their profits...
...that segregation exists. Professor Murakoshi sees the salvation of the outcasts only in a wholly unrealistic goal-an end to the monarchy, which even in its postwar, watered-down form remains the country's most revered institution. As Murakoshi sees it, the Emperor symbolizes and enforces the status quo in the Japanese system, and is thus responsible for the plight of the buraku-min. "Just as Japan created a superhuman being," Murakoshi charges angrily, "so it created, by necessity, a class of subhumans...
Despite their dissimilarities, they share some traits. One is a contempt for bureaucracy. "In the bureaucratic societies," Kissinger once wrote, "policy emerges from a compromise which often produces the least common denominator, and is implemented by individuals whose reputation is made by administering the status quo." Both tend toward perfectionism. Kissinger drives his National Security Council staff to strive for that state of refinement in their position papers and memos that he likes to define as "meticulous" ? a favorite adjective of approval...