Word: archaicisms
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...felt by a minority that had been branded an untouchable class during Japan's samurai era of the 17th century. In those days, the burakumin were social outcasts: the butchers, tanners and waste-handlers who fell to the bottom of the heap in a five-tier caste system. The archaic social structure went the way of the shoguns during Japan's Meiji transformation in the late 19th century. Yet the burakumin still exist on the fringes of this mostly homogenous society, and fight the age-old battles of discrimination. "It's still a taboo," says Hiroshi Kanto, organizer...
...When military men use the adjective "final" to describe an offensive not yet launched, their intention is usually simply to raise morale. And the Macedonian military's operations around Tetovo - moving reinforcements and a handful of archaic tanks into city and pounding the surrounding hillsides - appear to be aimed primarily at reassuring Macedonia's Slav majority that the separatist rebellion would not be tolerated. The Macedonian army is neither trained nor equipped for the counterinsurgency operation required to dislodge the guerrillas from the high ground, and might suffer heavy casualties if they tried to charge up the hillsides into...
...that Harvard students face. The University president has the opportunity, unfortunately little exercised during the Rudenstine years, to revamp the College and increase the quality of a Harvard education. Like Eliot, Lowell, Conant and Bok before him, Summers should review the undergraduate curriculum and be unafraid to remove its archaic elements--most notably an outdated Core Program that forces students to take large, watered-down lectures at the expense of departmental classes. We hope Summers will move quickly to address the poor advising system that often tends to plague large departments (including economics). He must vigorously pursue the University...
...charter was granted in the 17th century. Our administrative bodies are better fit for study by the Department of History than for the management of this institution. The authors of our Constitution recognized that a government should evolve over time--why is Harvard so reluctant to change its archaic ways? It is time for the Harvard Corporation, and the Administration as a whole, to move into the 21st century...
...seek retaliatory trade sanctions against the U.S. - and they'd probably win, meaning American business would ultimately bear the cost of the Helms-Burton legislation. The Europeans, Canadians and Latin Americans, of course, have little sympathy for Washington's Cuba policy, which they regard as an archaic relic of the Cold War. So Clinton simply repeatedly postponed a confrontation by using his waiver. But this week's waiver expires in July, at which point President George W. Bush would have to try his hand at reconciling the Helms-Burton act with Washington's obligations under international free-trade agreements. Republican...