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...only cure for the evils of democracy is more democracy," proclaimed New York's Al Smith in a more confident era. The Public Interest's tenth-anniversary issue, which contains articles by ten leading American intellectuals, comes to an opposite conclusion: democracy has gone far enough in America, perhaps too far. In the phrase of Samuel P. Huntington, professor of government at Harvard, democracy has contracted a bad case of "distemper." So many demands are made of the all too vulnerable system that it is in danger of breaking down. Or, as Daniel Patrick Moynihan, U.S. Ambassador...
...House hopes to avenge last year's 15-14 loss to Yale, and will use next Wednesday's season finale against Quincy as a tune-up for their showdown in Eli land. He stands tenth on the Ivy scoring list...
...CREATING DEMOCRACY ON THE CONTINENT: If you buy coffee for a given price and the following year you pay one-tenth of the price, and at the same time you double the price of the goods you are selling back, you are creating conditions of poverty and tension that do not lead to democracy. For example, Venezuela has always supplied oil to the U.S. When the [1973 Arab oil] embargo took place, Venezuela not only declined to join it but also increased her production to meet the needs of the American market. Nevertheless, a discriminatory trade law against OPEC members...
Rounding out the scoring for the Crimson, junior Jeff Campbell finished seventh overall (22:04), followed by an improving Bill Brownsberger who captured tenth place with a 22:46 timing...
...number-one preference. All those ballots which for various reasons did not indicate any clear preferences are thrown out of consideration. The valid vote is then counted to determine the minimum number of votes a candidate will need for election. (For election to the council a candidate needs one tenth of the vote plus one, since there are nine council seats; for the school committee, a candidate needs one sixth of the vote plus...