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...letter, which was also sent to The Boston Globe and the Chronicle of Higher Education, criticizes what the CSA perceives to be Bok's underlying assumption "that education is not valuable for its own sake, but only because a diploma may make a person a more productive economic unit...
That a popularly elected government in a distant nation should be deposed for the sake of a bunch of banana salesmen may seem absurd and even comical. Mostly though, it is terrifying. Arbenz's policies--essentially the legalization of labor unions and a modest land reform that expropriated only unused fields, including much of United Fruits holdings--were hardly those of a Marxist revolutionary Nor did they pose a lethal threat to United Fruit's interests, its fruit-producing lands remained untouched But America, caught up in the hysteria of McCarthysim and the Cold War, flinched. The reflex to react...
...other states in this hemisphere and elsewhere. This is not to prejudge whether or not he might be willing to reconsider, but years of experience and a fruitless dialogue in the preceding Administration would make one very wary of being drawn into meaningless discussions for discussion's sake...
...inclination is to go with Wood Memorial winner Air Forbes Won, and not just because of the name. With two Derby winners in his immediate family--Bold Forbes and Northern Dancer--Air Forbes Won has the pedigree. And for history's sake. Pleasant Colony, who went two-for-three in the Triple Crown last year, also won the Wood in his final prep for the Derby. Add to these assets the fact that Air Forbes Won has both his eyes, all his teeth, and four sound legs as of this writing...
...cannot have development without change, though I am not for change for change's sake. During this parliamentary session, we contemplate introducing measures to improve the local government system for black people outside the national states. On the labor front, we have made great advances...