Word: affirms
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Justice Souter votes to weaken or overturn Roe v. Wade before Bush faces re-election in 1992, the President will be castigated for having smuggled an abortion foe onto the court without a fair fight. Few will believe that Bush didn't know all along that Souter would affirm the Republican Party's call to gut the landmark abortion-rights decision...
...hanging of a Confederate flag in the window of the Leverett Towers constitutes a legitimate--and insensitive--exercise of free speech. Accordingly, the Harvard community has a dual responsibilty; first, to affirm the right of the student to display the flag and second, to register enough thoughtful disapproval to persuade the person to remove...
...soon he began to question his own assumptions. The spring of his sophomore year he organized a celebration for Israel's 40th anniversary. "It was five months after the intifada started, and I had to general feeling of malaise. But I still felt that it was important to affirm and celebrate Israel...
...that if a people does not have everything (i.e., all the land), it has nothing. The issue for him is whether Jews can say grace without being totally satisfied. Even more important, the question is whether religious loyalty requires believing that there is only one way. Or does Judaism affirm that no human community has access to the total truth? In responding to these questions, says Hartman, "the most profound Jewish values are at stake. Israel cannot claim the allegiance of Jews everywhere if the spiritual content of Israeli life is not what a Jew living anywhere would want...
...ironically, the only part of the U.S.S.R. that can be said to be fully democratic is Lithuania, which has held the U.S.S.R.'s first free multiparty elections. For Lithuania freely to secede from a nondemocratic union is not to undermine the idea of democratic government but, in fact, to affirm...