Word: applauding
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With the fear of crime and the public frustration at the justice system rising, it is not surprising that many Americans applaud Bernhard Goetz and yearn to strike back at criminals. But an apt warning to such citizens comes from Hubert Williams, director of police in crime-plagued Newark, N.J. "We can give up our Constitution in return for our safety. If you give police unfettered rights, I assure you that crime will drop. The price will be a garrison state. As a policeman, I think that is a price we cannot afford...
...part of an activist program to work for change in South Africa. Divestiture should be accompanied by vigorous efforts to lobby Congress, the Reagan Administration, and individual corporations for economic and diplomatic sanctions against South Africa, and to grant educational and economic support directly to Blacks and coloreds. We applaud the recent actions by Trans-Africa and the Free South Africa movement for its pickets and civil disobedience outside the South African embassy and consulates and hope that more join this cause...
...would like to applaud the editorial entitled "South Africa: Intensive Dialogue Can Work" in the Crimson. The opinion highlights the essential point in asserting that the Harvard Corporation should not divest of all its holdings in portfolio companies in South Africa. The "intensive dialogue" is real, not a whitewash. Harvard is clearly acting in good faith to its commitment to promote reform in the Aparthied state by recently divesting of a company failing to follow the Sullivan and Tutu Principles, Harvard has had a positive influence by keeping its hand in the situation by not turning is back...
...have a chance to confer with the assistant in advance, of course--and we, all like to be called assistants" net "graders"--you may be able to ferret out one or two cosmic assumptions of his own; seeing them in your blue book, he can only applaud your uncommon perception. For example, while most graders are politically unconcerned, not all are agnostic. This is an older generation, recall. Some may be tired of seeing St. Augustine flattened by a phrase or reading about the "xian myth...
...applaud the Pope for reaffirming the Roman Catholic Church's stance on contraception [RELIGION, Dec. 3]. I chastise those who adopt the "cafeteria Catholic" attitude of choosing the beliefs that satisfy their secular and hedonistic desires. No one said that being a Catholic would be easy...