Word: conflict
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Harvard calendar tradition has struck again. Last year, seemingly more worshipful of tradition than even Zero Mostel, the University simply could not uproot Commencement from the 38th Thursday to accomodate its conflict with a Jewish religious holiday. Move Commencement? Start the year earlier to afford a longer Reading Period? Would such radicalism really send John Harvard's statue racing around the Yard...
...true polemicist, I overstate. Not all who oppose the Clubs are fanatics. Many, properly concerned about equity, have been misled into thinking it an absolute. Though almost all of us (including many Clubbies) give equity high priority, almost all of us, also, value freedom of association. When values conflict, one must look at the circumstances to decide which deserves priority. In the case of Final Clubs, it is hard to see why the claims of equity should prevail over those of free association...
Iran, whose major condition for peace has been Saddam Hussein's ouster, is also feeling the pinch of the stagnant conflict. In an effort to placate the populace, which is becoming increasingly unhappy with stringent wartime economic conditions, the Supreme Judicial Council two weeks ago designated special courts to try corrupt government officials and businessmen. Seventeen offenders are already on trial, with scores more expected to follow...
...date the conflict has cost 60 million tons in lost coal production. And with some 125,000 miners still out, the strike is far from over. In Yorkshire last week, strikers overturned and wrecked automobiles, hurled gasoline bombs at a police car and a police station for the first time. Thirty-five policemen were injured and 45 strikers arrested...
...said that although there are certain firm guidelines for drawing up the schedule, the University is willing to change certain important days--like registration or the first day of classes--if they conflict with religious holidays...