Word: basics
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...uses a technique called reportage, or fictionalized reporting. Liu "analyzes basic social conditions that [allow] corruption to grow," author Perry Link wrote...
Nothing. Several things are equally as healthy as one's sexual identity, of course. What one eats is, like sex, an essential part of one's most basic identity. You are what you eat, Socrates said, and he was right. The emergence of groups on campus to help people get together and discuss what they eat, how much, and why is a welcome sign that people are beginning to understand that one's gastrointestinal tract is just as crucial to one's human identity as are one's genitals...
With its Western setting, dashed dreams and ensuing violence, Gillettemight sound just like another Sam Shepard rip-off. But Hauptman tries to make it clear that he's less interested in the "myth of the West" than in the reality. After all, the play's basic situation--tremendous overcrowding in prisons as well as in 12-hour-shift motels, life-threatening work, and a 10 to 1 male-female ratio--comes straight from real life, circa 1981. The oddness of Gillette's events are due to the oddness of Americans and their American dreams, not ARTesian meta-theatre games...
...greatest concern must be expressed over the implications of an institutional link between the CIA and Harvard. The CIA, with its secretive nature and its history of undermining the foreign policy aims of our nation's elected representatives--as well as basic international law--should not receive the legitimacy of associating itelf with one of the world's leading institutions of liberal education. The recent Iran-contra affair patently showed how the CIA can corrupt U.S. foreign policy...
...that, simply, is all that the CIA is supposed to do. To call the CIA a "reprehensible" body because of its "secretive" nature and "history of undermining the foreign policy aims of our nation's elected representatives as well as basic international law" is unsupported cant. No such examples are given because there are none to offer...