Word: admittedly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Some argue that by capitulating to the Iranian students we will dishonor ourselves and invite any terrorist to take advantage of us. If the demands were unjust and self-serving this would be true. They are not. Is it capitulation to admit we were wrong? Is it dishonorable to accede to a righteous demand...
...instigation of students in the Class of 1980, who broke the boycott in an attempt to reform the CRR from within. The CRR, however, still provides the students it tries no means of appealing its decision, except by asking the CRR itself to reconsider its decision. Nor does it admit hearsay evidence. Token reform can not alter the character of the CRR, which violates basic principles of legal justice...
...ring to British counterintelligence agents in 1964; he clearly believed that the immunity from prosecution that he was given at the time in exchange for his further cooperation expiated his guilt. "I feel that I have acted according to my conscience," he said imperturbably. The most he would admit was that "my original action in the 1930s was totally wrong...
...some ways, given the difference between Cambridge, Mass., and Cambridge, England, he is reminiscent of Alger Hiss. He mentioned in his apologia that in the '30s he was drawn to Marxism and the U.S.S.R. in the light of Chamberlain's appeasement policy, but went on to admit that it was the influence of Burgess that led him to translate this vague sympathy into active service on behalf of the KGB. I cannot, in any case, see Das Kapital as his bedside book...
...Kiev. Sunday attendance runs from 500 to 1,000. The congregation remains in dependent of the still suspect All-Union Council. A handful of parishioners are cleaning the church when our sleek black limousine arrives. It leads them to decide not to say who their leaders are, though they admit that all members who were imprisoned during the Vins days are back. Recalling the times when the congregation had to worship clandestinely in the woods beyond the city, an old woman remarks, "Our services were of ten disturbed." Even now, a man adds "Sometimes at night windows...