Word: complicitly
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...values-free” Harvard and have refused to acquiesce in the dehumanizing logic of the corporate university. Many in the Harvard community have woken up to the reality that in a time of injustice, the inaction of our institutions can make them altogether complicit in that injustice...
...incomprehensible to me that people don’t think of final club membership as a social issue, one that has an impact on the community beyond the clubs. I left because I was all too aware of that impact and did not want to be complicit in it. Today I’m still friendly with many of the members, and they still ask me to come by the club even knowing how I feel about it. Often, I’m tempted to say yes. It’s true that if I hung out there every once...
...there’s substantial evidence at least in the case of Cisco (a company that makes firewall and routing hardware, including the wireless access points in the dorms here at Harvard, and also manufactures the Linksys brand of consumer networking devices) that they’re being complicit in unsavory ways. A brochure which Cisco handed out at a 2002 trade conference in China advertises particular products as ideal for such uses as “police routine community surveillance” and “preventative control and increse [sic] social stability.” Should...
...overcaffeinated and underdiscerning press has become complicit in the horse-race presidency. New policies are analyzed politically rather than for what they are intended to achieve. Success is measured in days and weeks-in polling blips-rather than months or years. This has been a terrible thing: Presidents need to be thinking past the horizon, as Jimmy Carter belatedly proved. Some of his best decisions-a strict monetary policy to combat inflation, a vigorous arms buildup against the Soviet threat-bore fruit years after he left office and were credited to his successor, Ronald Reagan. But then, Carter was among...
...Assad regime, the U.N. investigation into Hariri's death is likely to stoke more outrage. The report not only provides a rare glimpse into the workings of Syria's police state; if its findings are true, it also makes a devastating case that Assad family members were complicit in state-sponsored murder. The report, quoting an unidentified Syrian witness "who claims to have worked for the Syrian intelligence services in Lebanon," says that senior Syrian and Lebanese security chiefs first decided to kill Hariri last September. A month later, the U.N. report says, a Lebanese security chief who worked closely...