Word: actioner
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...laws, our army, our elected leader. Our country is founded on the premise summarized by Voltaire as "I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it." Burning the flag is a childish but far from unconscionable way to protest governmental action. Thus, I find the proposed amendment disturbingly reminiscent of the criminalization of any physical desecration of Stalin's portrait, intentional or unintentional, in the now-defunct Soviet Union...
Ramos said she and other students are frustrated by the administration's lack of action, despite a public recognition of diversity problems on campus more than two years...
While Levitan said the tenants' leases were terminated, he said, "No one was surprised by our action at all. We've had cordial relations with our tenants [and there was] always an understanding that their tenancy was temporary at least for the past five years...
...Levitan said their proximity to student dorms was a concern for the University, but that it did not motivate the current action...
...tough question," he said. "When Harvard bought the building the Pro was already there. Given that, we didn't ever take any action to extricate them from our property...