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Excerpt: “There is no agreement that students, soldiers or prisoners should be granted even the most basic rights of free press of free speech. Of these groups that society excludes from the blanket of free expression, the largest and most important is students [...] [who are] frequently are forbidden to voice even mild criticism of school officials or policies. In civics classes they learn of America’s heritage of freedom of expression, but in journalism classes they discover that this freedom rings hollow in the schools...
...good. The Soviet Union disintegrated in a Christmas gift to the world, and the Berlin Wall fell without a shot being fired. Former South African President Nelson R. Mandela walked a remarkably peaceful path from prison to the presidency. Peace came to Northern Ireland through the Good Friday Agreement. The light of democracy swept across some of the darkest corners of the globe, and the number of democracies expanded from 69 in 1989 to 119 today. And if you still don’t believe that anything is possible, the New England Patriots won three Super Bowls, the Boston Celtics...
Although Radcliffe women had begun attending classes at Harvard after a 1943 agreement formally instated joint instruction, some female students prior to Bunting-Smith’s inauguration said that they felt they were not full members of the Harvard community...
...June 10, the union expects to reach an agreement on what will likely be a three-year contract, possibly more inclusive than in previous years...
Obama’s approach to Israel also pleases us. We reiterated our hope for a peace agreement regarding the conflict over Gaza but established that any compromise must not come at the expense of human rights. Finally, we determined that it was best for the U.S. to end its rubber-stamp approval of all of Israel’s policies and for the two nations to scale down their alliance...