Word: applauding
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...first U.S. president - in or out of office - to visit Cuba since the Castro seized power in 1959. Pro-trade American farmers see Carter's mission as a potential icebreaker between the two nations; others who believe Castro has brought about progressive policies in health care and education applaud Carter for recognizing that Castro is a caring communist, not a murderous thug. And official permission for the trip was granted by the Treasury Department's Office of Foreign Assets Control on April 5, which ruled that Carter, as head of a Carter Center delegation, was allowed to visit under...
Although Cambridge is just one small city standing up to a hulking international institution, its symbolic protest is itself a milestone in the struggle against the bank. By boycotting, Cambridge shows solidarity with those who have suffered from the bank’s policies. We should applaud the residents of this city for taking a principled stand, even when the positive repercussions of their actions may seem remote to their own lives...
This change was long overdue, and we applaud those on the Student Affairs Committee of the Undergraduate Council who helped to broker the change in service. After being approached by the HSTO, the representatives explained the numerous student complaints about HSTO’s service. Students sometimes recieved no monthly bills only to be hit with a walloping balance after six months because of the phone service’s inefficient account management; students were charged exorbitant rates to use Harvard’s long distance plan; students were charged multiple times for the same service; students who have...
...left in April 2001, Swift entered the national consciousness when she commandeered a state helicopter Thanksgiving weekend in 1999 because, she later explained, her first child, Elizabeth, was sick. Racing home in the face of that is one of the few things Swift did in her short tenure I applaud. But being a worried parent doesn't exempt you from the law. If you don't own up to the personal use of a state plane and pay for it, you come across like Evita, as if motherhood entitles you to skirt the rules. This lapse might not have caused...
...supporters and dissenters to think critically and raise important questions. Former Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas, a staunch advocate of civil liberties, once put it plainly: “Free speech is not to be regulated like diseased cattle and impure butter. The audience that hissed yesterday may applaud today, even for the same performance.” If the government listened to Horowitz, we might be safer from future terrorist attacks...