Word: cheering
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Imagine this. It's Friday night about 7:30. The stadium lights are shining on hundreds of fields across the south. The bands are filling the evening sky with fight songs, the players are full of butterflies and the thousands of fans are packing into the bleachers to cheer their sons, classmates, students or friends...
...there was no clearly defined right and wrong. Most outsiders felt instinctive sympathy for the Chechens as the victims of assault, of indiscriminate bombing of civilians -- but sympathy too for the hapless Russian recruits dying because of the ineptitude of their leaders and generals. But could anyone really cheer for Chechen secession? A few voices call for letting regions historically forced into the Russian Federation go free, like the other pieces of the Soviet Empire. But the U.S. and West European governments acknowledged without question Russia's right to hold the country together. Analogies are never exact, but the rough...
Tuesday afternoon, Kansas City Municipal airport. I am soaking my frustration over a delayed flight at one of those kitschy Cheers-imitation restaurants, when approached by a sun-burnt, 40ish man named Frank, one of the 60 or so Nebraska fans passing through the airport after their trip to Miami and the Orange Bowl. He is in a good mood, as his abrupt introductory remark indicates, and I am pretty pissed off. Believing cheer to be infectious, I decide to partake in a little whole-some midwestern badinage...
...alarm within the Harvard community. If we grant the right to express and disseminate ideas to some students but deny these same privileges to others, then we might as well stop all this highminded talk about tolerance and diversity. Those who stood on the Widener steps in December to cheer the words of Professor David Mitten as he denounced the attacks on Muslims in Bosnia should, to be consistent, be among the first to speak out on behalf of HCIA. If one stands in solidarity with the Bosnian Muslims across the ocean, then in principle one should not remain silent...
Welcome back to Cambridge after two weeks of holiday cheer and celebration with your family, opening gifts and singing songs. But what gift did we receive from fair Mother Harvard? The dread of finals, a freezing cold two-week escape into the library, three days of intersession and spring registration...