Word: claiming
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Then Patty Hearst was led out of the courtroom to wait while the jurors began to discuss and debate her claim that she had been compelled to commit the crime. It did not take the jury long to decide that Patty, alias Tania, was not telling the truth...
...Hiss's lawyers had corroboration for Chambers' claim that Hiss had given an automobile to the U.S. Communist Party...
...appeal to self interest," Dr. Chase N. Peterson '52, vice president for alumni affairs and development, explains, "and claim that our program will benefit the group that we approach." In the East Asian Studies Program, for example, the University has been remarkably successful in convincing Japanese, Korean, and other East-Asian-based corporations that an East Asian center at Harvard will ultimately benefit these corporations because it will strengthen ties to the United States. In this same way a group of Korean business men has contributed $1 million for a chair in Modern Korean Economics and Society, hoping the chair...
...make-up of Harvard University determines the underlying push of these fundraising efforts. Not only are few programs free from the financial squeeze, but Peterson is now beginning to claim that if Harvard cannot "get off the plateau" and significantly increase its sources of funding, then the "golden era of Harvard College when the University could always afford to offer substantial scholarships could be nearing its end." "Harvard is the place of pre-eminent excellence," Peterson believes, and it is the fundraising done on a year by year basis that makes the University go. Without momentum, if we just...
...continues to see the world in white and black, but now the colors are differently distributed. As a Communist he saw no difference between fascists and social democrats. As an anti-communist he sees no difference between nazism and communism. Once, he accepted the party's claim to infallibility; now he believes himself to be infallible. Having once been caught by the "greatest illusion", he is now obsessed by the greates disillusionment of our time...