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...fall of my senior year, however, I have come to realize how incredibly silly the whole thing is. It is not that we should hesitate to confront the administration, that we should be afraid to take on Harvard--but when we do, we should be sure that we are addressing issues of real importance, not wasting our time with minor battles...
...change punished him two years later for delivering too much of it. But while Gingrich made the same mistake, overread his mandate and overplayed his hand, Clinton made a point of saying over and over again: I heard you, I listened; walk, don't run; cooperate, don't confront. There was a reason Clinton hardly ever mentioned his opponent from Kansas and even less often the Democratic Party: he was running against Gingrich, not Dole, as the better man to enact a Republican agenda...
...violence against women. As Emilie Buchwald comments in Transforming a Rape Culture, "Editorial responses call for more severe punishments for rapists, for longer prison sentences, even for the death penalty...[but] programs for offenders are merely holding actions to deal with today's violent men.... Until we identify and confront the issues that lead to sexual violence, we will need more prisons...
...barbs from the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) when that body was presented with the plan. The IT strategy attempts to maintain the College's position in the front guard of the cyberspace habitation but unfortunately fails to deal with some of the larger issues which we will confront in the coming years...
Chen argued that Hong Kong also will need to confront the increasing income disparity between rich and poor...