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Campus activists said that Calkins' statement of Harvard's investment policy helped to trigger their protest movements. Alan L. Jackson '84, a spokesman for the 30 students and one professor who fasted for seven days to demand Harvard's total divestiture from South Africa, said that Calkins' statement represents Harvard's decision "to be on the wrong side of the ethical issue...
People begin drinking socially for a myriad of reasons, including, most notably, peer pressure. But the answer to one question remains elusive: Why do people become alcoholics? In the continuum from a few too many drinks at a party to loss of control over drinking, where is the trigger point? Vaillant says that it is impossible to say, but at some level the casual drinker becomes physiologically and psychologically addicted to liquor. "You are an alcoholic," says Vaillant, "when you're not always in control of when you begin drinking and when you stop drinking...
...second dimension of her theory. Half a century ago she saw institutions destroyed in Japan and Stalinist Russia, and watched idealism self-distract in the country side of Civil War-torn Spain. In the last 15 years--she has seen the Vietnam War. Watergate and the atom bomb trigger the same reactions in the United States, she has with increasing frequency turned to history for answers. Although she still retains her humanistic vision, she has gradually focused more attention on dredging history for clues...
...statement was so incredibly honest, so human, that it might have installed Mondale in some kind of political Hall of Fame. Who else had ever pulled the trigger on himself so winningly? The statement set off other reactions too. People who scorned that kind of political immolation thought Mondale had shown an impotence that could never be forgiven. Eugene McCarthy, Mondale's former colleague and a man who has also been accused of being a quitter, later expressed his own savage view: Mondale had the soul of a Vice President...
...specific proposals Hart forwards some trigger the suspicion that he is proposing them simply he cause they are new, not because of any profound understanding or support for them. His prosecutions on Tax-Based Income Policies (TIP) to control inflation and consumption taxes--rather than income taxes to reform the tax code, are both brief. Neither sections acknowledges the administrative barriers which would seriously erode such programs' implementation not do they address the political problems which have led many politicians and economists to write both proposals...