Word: america
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...speakers encouraged attendees, who came from 12 Boston-area colleges and universities, to participate in politics at a local level and to think of themselves as America's leaders...
After finding out about Kristallnacht--the night of Nov. 9-10, 1938, in which members of the Nazi regime committed acts of violence against Jewish persons and property--Riesman said that he and other students petitioned Harvard to invite German Jewish students and professors to America. Harvard's dean responded reluctantly, saying he would "make haste slowly," Riesman said...
Chinese officials are used to acting in this way, even in America...
Frankly, I'm a little appalled that the mothers and fathers of America are anti-Potter for religious reasons. There is far less religion apparent in Potters adventures than there ever was in another acclaimed Narnia series, starting with The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe. C. S. Lewis' books were a thinly veiled Christian tract where God posed as a lion named Aslan...
...Americans voted for the helping-hand and the finger-pointer. But right now America is not even sure that there is a problem. There are certainly issues--health, education, social security, guns, the environment, social inequality--but none of these problems have as yet acquired the requisite electoral urgency to favor the liberal or the extremist. The moderate centrist is likely to prevail--although where that center will fall among Albert Gore Jr. '69, Bill Bradley and Bush remains open...