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...university, in other words, must not be considered as the battleground. It is true that the American universities support the American empire abroad and corporate capitalism at home. But this, from a radical standpoint, is simply not the most important thing to be said about them. For the universities can also serve as centers of radical criticism--or, if one prefers the term, of subversion. There is nothing particularly incompatible about these dual functions of the American university, and history may yet show that the university's subversive role was far more important that its supportive...
...petition states that academic freedom consists of "free inquiry and discussion," implying an abstract battleground where all ideas somehow fight it out. But is academic freedom really an abstract fight? Isn't it rather a procedure by which the Harvard Corporation extends its protection to certain people to "assure the inviolability of...all duly approved courses" (i.e., whatever the Corporation approves is absolutely protected, no matter what is its content, ideas, or its effects...
...Golan Heights, from which Syrian guns shelled Israeli kibbutzim for ten years. But Israel has-until now-left open the larger questions of what it intends to do with the populous West Bank of the Jordan River, and with the broad sands of Sinai, which have been a tank battleground in two wars...
From the mid-Pacific battleground, Sherrod cabled: "A small rock memorial near the Betio Club, blockhouses, big guns-everything but a few shot-up am-tracks visible at low tide belongs to the Japanese. It seems fitting to affix a bronze plaque at the base of a white pylon in memory of the United States Marines who won a unique battle there. They provided the lessons for the rest of the journey...
...million to boost their man, 70% of it on television. When Humphrey began gaining with alarming rapidity, the budget was increased to $12 million, including an additional $1,700,000 earmarked for TV. Extra 60-second spots were booked on programs in 15 states, including the eight so-called "battleground states" that account for 227 of the 270 electoral votes needed for victory-California, Illinois, Michigan, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Texas. In a final-week electronic blitz, Humphrey spent $3,000,000 on TV, and the G.O.P. was not far off that figure...