Word: badness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...spent a fair bit of my undergraduate days having run-ins with the CRR, and I've watched several cadres of students come through Harvard to pick up where we left off. But the issues that were behind our protests have been lost in yours. An infatuation with the "bad old days" seems to have replaced intellectual understanding--and sometimes reason--in more recent attacks...
...petitioning the powers that be for the right to build our own set of shanties in the Yard. These will replicas of the Quad to protest our being Quaded, to request that Harvard divest from itself for letting the Quad get into bad condition. In our "Statement of Policy" we wish to stress that our premise for our demands is that Harvard has let much of the Quad become rundown, has threatened to cut-off badly needed renovations for lack of funds, and has made that Quad situation much worse than it already...
...just talked about what they felt and it was very poignant, and very instructive," Coles says. "A little more of the connection between the world of the homeless and the poor and the distinguished Harvard Medical School wouldn't be such a bad idea...
Other Russians and Jews, fearing guilt by association, will have nothing to do with them. This family has been trying to emigrate for six years, and no longer bothers to apply for an exit visa every six months. "When the children were young, it was not so bad. We had hope that we can leave. But now, it has been such long time. What if we have to stay here for rest of our lives?" Next year. Natasha will apply to a university, and her parents fear that continued visa applications will hurt her chances of being accepted...
...Sergy gave us two reasons, first that "they keep us to sell." When the Soviets want something from the U.S., for instance the sale of grain, he said they let a few Jews go to "prove" that they are making progress on human rights. Secondly Jewish emigration sets a bad example for other minority groups in Soviet society. In 1979, after large numbers of Jews were allowed to leave, "everyone wanted to emigrate," Sergy said. "It was a bad political mistake, and they will not repeat...