Word: apartness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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BOTH The Salient and The Perspective--as far apart ideologically as you can get at Harvard--have defended Thernstrom in the name of academic freedom. Fruitful debate in the academic community depends on the right to express controversial theories. Nobody disagrees with this. What there is contention over--especially in the Thernstrom case--is how to define the limits of this freedom...
That dream of course is not a new one, it was the dream of a poor Georgia populist of the nineteenth century. Tom Watson told his followers, poor Southerners, Black and white, in 1892 that: "You are kept apart that you may be separately fleeced of your earnings. You are made to hate each other because upon that hatred is rested the keystone of the arch of financial despotism which enslaves you both. You are deceived and blinded that you may see how this race antagonism perpetuates a monetary system which beggars both." It is time we understood this...
...voters know what to expect if they elect Gov. Michael S. Dukakis as their next president. Dukakis is the only Democrat in the race who has a proven track record of success, and he has also demonstrated the personal qualities of honesty, candor, and integrity that set him apart from his competitors...
...better, I don't think it will mean half as much to them as it did to us." Over the entire 16 days, the nearest Canada came to a gold medal was Figure Skater Brian Orser's second-place finish to Brian Boitano of the U.S. Softly Orser said, "Apart from the competition, my memory will be of Americans even more than Canadians. I already knew the kindness of my countrymen, but so many people from the U.S. have come up to me to say they just wished there were two gold medals...
Perkins completed her hat trick in the thirdperiod with goals eight minutes apart. TheHuskies--who picked up all seven penaltieswhistled in the game--gave up two five-on-threesituations totaling two minutes and 19 seconds.But the Crimson just couldn't put the puck pastKelly Dyer...