Word: affair
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...mixing with ordinary folks, thereby cultivating a keen sense of popular sentiment. Observes a senior Cuban official: "He is not like Honecker and Ceausescu, who lost touch with their people." And unlike the communist regimes imposed on Eastern Europe after World War II, Castro's revolution was a homegrown affair that quickly attracted the support of most Cubans...
...This whole thing was an aberration," said Michael R. Kelsen '90, a former council treasurer. "[Dropping the affair] was the politically prudent thing...
...case when he recognized that a defendant was a Harvard student. The student was in court to hear his sentence after having turned himself in to the police several months earlier. After the reporter gave information on the court proceeding, The Crimson decided to run an article on the affair ["Student Admits Fake ID Sale...
...Harvard community. But there is a difference between reporting news and creating news. Even after recounting the highlights of the court proceeding, The Crimson did not stop. Reporters called Dean of Students Archie C. Epps III and interrogated him regarding his knowledge of and involvement in the affair, which, of course...
This case stands in stark contrast to a similar occurrence last year when a student was caught for the same crime. The Crimson did not meddle in the affair; it merely reported after the fact that an unnamed student was put on disciplinary probation for his illicit activity. Is there a new policy at The Crimson this year that it now considers itself a moral tribunal which will decide when individuals have been adequately punished...