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...unwise. In is distressing, however, to feel the need to take such idiocy seriously, but it is more distressing, and also frightening, to know that there are Harvard students who would not only think of taking a poster like this seriously, but who also lack the editorial ethics to refrain from printing such distortions. GLSA (note that the writers of The Salient have not even bothered to learn the correct name for an organization they are attacking) is open to all Harvard students of whatever sexual orientation or political perspective. The idea of a comp for GLSA is so ludicrous...
...nuclear-armed vessels. The proscription applied to all foreign shipping, but it really meant U.S. naval vessels. At first it appeared that the matter could be compromised or finessed without great difficulty. U.S. Secretary of State George Shultz told Lange in Wellington last July that the U.S. would refrain from sending any naval vessels to New Zealand ports for six months or more. According to U.S. officials, the New Zealanders in turn assured the Americans that the problem could be settled to everyone's satisfaction by then...
...what Stockman was really saying was "Let's cut off the arms and legs of the patient. Then he'll be 30 lbs. lighter and less of a burden." Farm Belt Republicans were equally outraged. Senator Charles Grassley of Iowa, in a letter to Stockman, asked him to "please refrain from sermonizing on the free market, which seems most hypocritical from a Government that has been the root cause of the current farm-economy crisis...
...necessary. However, the pendulum may be swinging too far in the other direction. It would be a tragedy to deny children the warmth of a relationship with a well-meaning adult like a neighbor who touches the youngster's head or pats his back. Many people may now refrain from any contact with a child for fear of being branded an "Uncle Harry...
Despite his vanity and predilection for the bottle, Boswell above all, as Carlyle said of him, had a good heart. As long as he could refrain from showing off and writing newspaper squibs about himself, he was a first-rate journalist. Boswell scrutinized everything around him and his works, the lively tour of the Hebrides and his biography of Johnson, brought a plethora of fascinating minutiae to light. Explaining Boswell's literary brilliance, Brady notes, "like Johnson he made acute observations about others because he relentlessly observed himself." And when this man--who wanted everyone to like him, who ardently...