Word: central
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...weeks ago, six tenants of a dilapidated Central Square apartment house became co-owners of the building with the first loan of the University's Harvard Emergency Lending Program (HELP) fund...
...were to look at the enormous gains made by the Sandinista government between the Revolution in 1979 and the first U.S.-backed contra attacks in 1982--gains that include decreasing infant mortality from 120 deaths per 1000 to 80 deaths per 1000; eliminating polio for the first time in Central American history; decreasing the illiteracy rate from 75 percent to 30 percent; and giving the Nicaraguan peoiple pride in themselves, their work, and their country--he might realize that letting the Sandinistas "do what they will" is not such an "unpleasant alternative" afterall. Jonathan Foster '87 Health and Human Rights...
...much love that I forget myself" is hardly a message which empowers women. Since violence against women is precisely an act of "forgetting," or negating, the existence of another to advocate the "forgetting" of oneself through love, at least in this context, is to point up a central feature of patriarchal culture: the required self effacement, we would like to stress, is systematically linked to the effacement of women in rape: both are results of a culture which condones the subjugation of women...
...Carter and her colleagues were allowed by the judge to invoke a centuries-old, common-law "necessity defense." An offense may be considered justifiable if it is directed against a "clear and imminent danger" that is of greater harm to the community, in this case alleged CIA lawbreaking in Central America. To bolster the cause, Defense Attorney Leonard Weinglass, one of Hoffman's lawyers in the 1969 Chicago Seven trial, got testimony from former Attorney General Ramsey Clark and onetime Contra Leader Edgar Chamorro. "These young people are doing perhaps what most of us should be doing," Juror Anne Gaffney...
...snow-speckled red-sandstone formations, Hart, 50, formally staked his claim to the prize that eluded him last time. His eight-minute speech, flawlessly delivered from memory, harked back to the cerebral themes of 1984: "I intend, as I always have, to run a campaign of ideas." Hart's central idea is his proclaimed ability to discern "the national interest" and his determination to pursue it. This sets up a refrain, as he compares his ideas to Reagan policies: "One choice is in the national interest, and that choice could not be clearer...