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Last year, she and several other women decided to celebrate what they called a "feminist Valentine's Day." They gave each other presents, went out to a nice dinner. It was, my friend says, an attempt to "affirm our love for each other as platonic friends, as women...

Author: By Susan B. Glasser, | Title: A Woman's View... | 2/14/1990 | See Source »

...other hand, officials affirm that Bush is showing a new willingness to use American military power to further U.S. interests that have little or nothing to do with communism -- suppressing drug traffic or terrorism, for example. U.S. helicopter pilots have been supporting drug-eradication efforts in Peru and Guatemala, though Peru last week called a halt to joint antidrug action in protest against the Panama invasion. The Washington Post has quoted Joint Chiefs Chairman Powell as telling colleagues that "we have to put a shingle outside our door saying SUPERPOWER LIVES HERE, no matter what the Soviets do, even...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Showing Muscle | 1/1/1990 | See Source »

Although their friends fiercely affirm that none of the priests were politicians, the nature of their academic studies and UCA's prominent efforts to bring about a negotiated settlement to the Salvadoran war made them highly political targets of the Salvadoran right wing...

Author: By Jeffrey C. Wu, | Title: Slain Priests Had Ties to Harvard | 12/14/1989 | See Source »

...Palestinian Uprising: Making the Connections," have spawned an important discussion of the basic issue of free speech at the University. I am writing to correct the record concerning our decision not to approve the request to hold the conference at the Divinity School and, moreover, to affirm the School's commitment to the exercise of free speech throughout the University...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Div School | 11/13/1989 | See Source »

...this campus should be made to feel that he or she is a second-class citizen, and certainly the University should not be the agent which provides this impression. It is time for the administration to affirm its own policies: discrimination on this campus will not be permitted on any basis or by any group or individual. It is time that it issued a statement proclaiming that until ROTC changes its discriminatory policies Harvard will not begin to consider allowing its presence on campus for any reason. It is time that the University says that discrimination supported by the United...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ROTC | 11/13/1989 | See Source »

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