Word: ares
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Harvard's faculty consists, for the most part, of white, male, middle-aged scholars with impeccable credentials and outstanding reputations. The tenure system insures it. And that, in itself, is a problem....the system discriminates against young academics; it favors the "big name" over youthful vigor and potential...In essence...
One night two and a half years ago, 3500 Harvard students lit candles and marched through the streets of Cambridge, protesting the shameful decision of the men who run this University not to sell their stock in companies operating in South Africa....Since that time, little has happened at Harvard...
"They are a good skating team--they the flow well, and they're very-well conditioned," the Harvard captain said. "When we played them in my freshman year they were very tough."
Nor is this the place to settle the argument about whether the country is actually becoming more polarized along economic lines. Democrats worry that the "middle class," as defined in terms of income, is shrinking. Republicans say that if it is, it's because so many people are getting rich...
This isn't the place to argue whether Reagan-era economic policies were a net gain or loss for the country. Obviously, economic growth is good and helps everyone. And just as obviously, some distributional inequities are necessary concomitants of a vibrant capitalist economy.