Word: belief
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...entirely antic belief that bigotry is something that happens in other places, to other people, is dependent upon a notion of Harvard as somehow detached, exempt from what occurs outside of its consoling walls. Harvard becomes an airless alter-environment in which intolerance is impolitesse. It is part of what keeps the closeted in their tombs of stifled denial...
...objected that their religious and moral standards had been violated. In all, four parents filed formal complaints, assisted by the Pacific Justice Institute, a Sacramento-based firm that often represents Christian conservatives. Passions were further inflamed when Rivers gave an interview to the student newspaper, discussing her childhood belief that she would grow up to be a woman, her three failed marriages and recovery from alcoholism, her psychiatric and hormone therapy and her fear of rejection by students. "I'm not some freak," she told the newspaper. "I have been a good teacher, but my best days are ahead...
Traveling through China reinforced my belief that attempts to restrict information and control dissent are not only counterproductive to a healthy economy and society, they are also, in the age of satellites and the Internet, futile. Among the most common sounds in Shanghai now is the chirping of cell phones. And last week I kept bumping into folks--from Yahoo's Jerry Yang and AOL's Steve Case to my dinner companion Liu Mingkang and Beijing Internet cafe founder Edward Zeng--who are launching digital-information services...
...purpose stemmed from my belief that space is something we should be going into," Ross says. "I've always felt that space is not just a technical challenge, but also a political challenge, a philosophical challenge, and an economic challenge...
...anti-Catholicism on non-existent evidence, prompting the invention of likewise trivial controversy. These efforts, however passionate, are clearly mistaken. Perhaps the Mayor and the Cardinal could put their time to better use by coming to campus and regulating what could be called Godless Harvard's most central belief system: electronic mail...