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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Your articles and editorials regarding the conference, "Apartheid's Arc and the Palestinian Uprising: Making the Connections," have spawned an important discussion of the basic issue of free speech at the University. I am writing to correct the record concerning our decision not to approve the request to hold the conference at the Divinity School and, moreover, to affirm the School's commitment to the exercise of free speech throughout the University...
...entirely correct in quoting Shevardnadze. He said that the fact of deploying armed forces in Afghanistan was in violation of Soviet laws, and it really was a violation of international law. I have my opinion about whether this was immoral or not -- this is a separate topic. Why did it happen? It was certainly the wrong decision. The Soviet Union was never planning to solve the Afghanistan problem with the help of its armed forces. It was fantasy to think that a military solution could be achieved by deploying a contingent of 100,000 in a mountainous country with...
...writing to correct what I believe is a damaging misrepresentation of remarks that I made during a November 7 panel on rape. Although I would not normally make such a correction merely for the sake of accuracy, I feel that the sentiments attributed to me by your reporter are not only so contrary to my own view, but so chilling to survivors of date rape that I must, on this occasion, respond...
...school because I viewed the law as a tool I could use to make a measurable difference in the everyday lives of individual people. Contrary to Clark's characterization of student philosophy, I am here to learn how to assess problems and to implement their solutions. Clark may be correct that an "indiscriminate supply of legal services" will not meet all the needs of this nation's poor, just as a steady flow of aid did not end famine in Africa...
...Answer Key: Sorry, this is Harvard. No answer key here...but I hope nobody thought that last one was correct...