Word: closer
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...merits of the proposed Meese medal have been exhaustively debated on this page and do not bear repeating here. What does beg a closer look is the contrasting reactions of the Harvard community to these two men. No juxtaposition of public events in my four years here has been so shocking or so close, in both space and time. And no two recent events could serve better as a quick illustration of the political biases of Harvard students...
...Closer to our own time, Hitler and the Nazis had their own vision of a natural order. They set down in rigidly narrow terms a code which prescribed who would be considered "racially pure" and who were to be classified as "impure." As we all know, this led to the mass extermination of eastern European Jews, racial minorities, Jehovahs Witnesses and others who did not conform to the state's concept of justice. What is often forgotten, however, is that gays were similarly listed among the ranks of the "impure" and tens of thousands also perished in the gas chambers...
...seriously in the capital. On the one hand, Israeli officials say their country has been strengthened diplomatically by the oil glut. The declining petropower of the Arab countries has emboldened many Third World oil-using nations to renew contacts with Israel broken off during the 1974 oil crisis. But closer to home, some Israeli officials see increased potential for an attack by Syria, which has fallen on hard times partly because beleaguered Iran has cut off its subsidies to the Damascus regime...
...deeper question at issue is how long and how easily democracy and dictatorship can live together. In some respects, Chun has eased his country steadily closer to freedom. The man in the Korean street no longer observes a midnight curfew, fears no sudden police raids and is able to travel abroad much more easily than before. Nonetheless, South Korea remains a virtual police state. The former general had hardly seized power when he pushed through martial law and placed many of his enemies under house arrest. To this day, the press is muzzled and the spreading of "black rumors" against...
...thought it would be a little closer," Minutewoman Coach Pam Hixon said. "But we created a lot of turnovers early and scored some important goals in the first half...