Word: ask
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...People ask if I will run for governor again. I don't want to do that, even though I loved the job," says Evans. He says he would prefer to wait and see what fate drops...
...writing to clarify a serious misinterpretation in The Crimson's article, "Council Will Ask Houses to Discuss Homophobia" (March 6). While the resolution I sponsored does in fact call on the masters of the houses and the freshmen senior advisors to "engage students and tutors in an open discussion of issues of sexual orientation, including attitudes toward gay and lesbian students," it does not and was never intended to involve the entire campus in a discussion of "the alleged harassment of a gay Mather House resident last month," as the article asserts...
...past few weeks, then, have shown the deplorable limits of tolerance on this campus. Gay students should be treated the same as any other Harvard student. They should be able to discuss their sexual identity, walk arm-in-arm in public and ask someone of the same sex to dance. If this community of presumably enlightened students cannot overcome the oppressive conventions of society, how will the society at large ever be able to change...
Philolexian Society member Matthew Segal said Muslim students called University President Michael Sovern on the morning of the reading to ask that it be cancelled. But Sovern refused to deny the group's freedom of speech...
Clad in a white coat and cap, a sympathetic Gorbachev and his wife Raisa inspected the reopened facility, in the shadow of the entombed reactor No. 4, and stopped to ask the plant's staff about new safety measures. Gorbachev called the Chernobyl accident "very serious for the whole world," adding, "Through science and technology, we need to give energy to the nation, but safety remains the most important thing." Forty-eight hours later, the first ! unit of a twelve-year-old nuclear-power plant in Armenia was shut down. Under public pressure, authorities conceded that the operation...