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Certainly, the University should not shy away from sponsoring forums on controversial subjects; to do that would be to abandon its duty to encourage the pursuit of knowledge and truth. As an opinion piece in yesterday's Crimson asserted, "Harvard's role isn't to make people comfortable; it's to foster critical thinking and dialogue...
Liberals need not abandon principled stands on flag-burning, school prayer and capital punishment to win these voters. They only have to take rural concerns--and rural voters--seriously. To start, liberals must take a credible stand against crime and abandon their contempt for people who believe that there is honor in serving God and country...
...citing such advances as notebook-size computers and high-speed RISC microprocessors. Says T.J. Rodgers, chief executive of Cypress Semiconductor: "What the bean counters who make projections forget is that in the next two to three years, we will have the next set of innovations, which will make them abandon their projections. It has happened before, and it will happen again." Don Valentine, a partner in Sequoia Capital, a venture-capital firm, contends that creative stagnation is confined mostly to the big corporations, including IBM, Wang and Unisys. Says he: "There is no innovation at the dinosaur companies that...
...spoken about him since the end of World War II. And he fusses over the attributes that create a "great" butler, finally coming up with a definition that satisfies him: "And let me now posit this: 'dignity' has to do crucially with a butler's ability not to abandon the professional being he inhabits...
Argentina and Britain are still the Hatfields and the McCoys when it comes to the issue of sovereignty over the Falklands. But at least the two nations have agreed to abandon their antagonism and settle most of their remaining differences. After three days of talks in Madrid, Argentina announced last week that it was formally ending its state of hostility with Britain, seven years after London made a similar gesture...