Word: conflict
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...touched off a blast in a Moscow subway so as to have an excuse to crack down on dissidents. The following day the department released a statement not only defending Sakharov as "an outspoken champion of human rights" but also warning Moscow that any attempt to "intimidate" him "will conflict with accepted international standards of human rights...
Harvard is a great institution, but its greatness doesn't insulate it from conflict. I would hope that our faculty could forget about three hundred years of tradition for a moment or two in order to settle the significant grievances about Harvard's calendar. Just because most other colleges in the country schedule finals before Christmas doesn't make it right; but when your own students are unhappy then maybe it's time to change. I earnestly hope, for everyone's sake, that the faculty will exercise wisdom and judgement by subordinating its self-interest to the wishes...
...measures should be employed to affect the readmission of the West Point cadets who cheated. We are going to need all of them; for, as we have watched and fiddled, the Russians have wrenched military supremacy from our faltering grasp. Now, maybe our only chance for victory in armed conflict with the Soviets boils down to one strategy: CHEAT...
This year audiences had better duck and hold their ears because just about every conflict but the War of Jenkins' Ear will be playing at the neighborhoods. Leading the attack is Apocalypse Now, Francis Ford Coppola's epic about the Viet Nam War itself. Loosely based on Joseph Conrad's novel Heart of Darkness, Apocalypse is about a mad Green Beret commander, played by Marlon Brando, who wages his own war in a remote Vietnamese province. Shooting in the jungles of the Philippines has been rather hellish for the cast-which also includes Robert Duvall and Martin...
Members of CCA contacted yesterday said they see no problems of conflict of interest arising from Lange's status as a Harvard employee...