Word: act
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...cell phone to another detainee. The phone was clearly contraband, as indicated by all the signs hanging around the station. But, for Mohammed, the instinct for self-preservation was overridden by the desire to help the other guy call home. That sealed his fate: The police chief saw the act of disobedience, and Mohammed was thrown into a cell where I could no longer...
...story. I did a dozen interviews about what happened to me, and when the story ended in “my translator is still in jail!” people would murmur words of support, but little more. Mallory Simon at CNN has been the only journalist to act in solidarity and maintain interest in Mohammed. Joel Campagna at the Committee to Protect Journalists has been an excellent and tireless resource...
...world of instant communications, globalization, and interdependence, which has made obsolete old models of international relations is the one in which young Americans will have to act. Helping them perform more subtly, more compassionately, more humbly than in the past should be one of the goals of this University. The remarkable enthusiasm of so many of its students for contributing to the welfare of the world is a huge asset—as long as they remember that they need to be more than good Samaritans. Ultimately, wise policies at home, and successful ones abroad, require fair and decent governments...
...think many people have talked about how colleges and universities seem more concerned with their own competitive advantage and college ratings than the well-being of their students, as well as fairness and equity,” Fitzsimmons said. “I think eliminating early action can act as a symbolic signal that higher education is trying to serve its constituents in a more humane...
...Feminists do not care to argue this assumption, and seeming to do so was exactly what got Summers into trouble with MIT biologist Nancy Hopkins ’64, who denounced him for proposing to inquire whether women are naturally less capable in science than men. Her scandalous act of obscurantist intolerance was welcomed by Harvard feminists with glee, mixed with surprise that she could get away with...