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Which makes the "they can't win" refrain somewhat ironic. It comes most often from precisely those people in Congress who are constantly fighting to cut aid to the contras, reducing their supplies to the barest minimum, or trying to eliminate assistance altogether. Having disarmed the resistance, they then assert that it cannot win, and then cite the inability to win as a reason for disarming it. A neat circle...
...without ever having had an in-depth conversation with a faculty member or administrator. Although there are opportunities like professors' office hours and resources like the Bureau of Study Counsel or freshman proctors, only particularly motivated students are likely to take advantage of them. Provided a student meets the barest requirements, University officials won't check...
...that we're off the cold diagonal bars of University action, back onto the flat warm city-steel surface of heat and common humanity, it's time to do more than offer the barest, basest minimum of community charity. When we begin to congratualte ourselves for allowing homeless men to continue to take refuge on ventilation units, we have begun to reconstruct the inequities which put them there...
...attended or the importance of the speaker. At the same time the paper has been very careful to search out and cover the smallest liberal events. For example, the Club's anti-Soviet rally (which took place a few weeks after the American invasion of Grenada) received the barest mention on the last page of the paper, even though over 150 students attended. By contrast, four weeks ago when 13 (count them, 13) pro-divestiture students sang in front of Derek Bok's office, The Crimson gave them a long front page story...
Hundreds of artifacts provide standard museum fare: ceramic vases, platters and flowers, bronze pieces, and terra cotta soldiers, to name a few. The barest factual background traces China's vast history, emphasizing the enormity of both China's past as well as the subject of this exhibit...