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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Coercing people to participate in political demonstrations is wrong. Using the formal educational structure of class schedules to coerce participation is doubly wrong. If the accounts in The Crimson are correct, some students felt coerced. If they wished to go to their own section at their scheduled time, they ran the risk of seeming to support a particular demonstration. Some were subsequently photographed in that context. If even one student felt coerced, the action was wrong. Majority votes are not enough when the rights of individuals are involved...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Coercion | 4/19/1986 | See Source »

...expect to see many new faces in the varsity boats. A more correct description would be 'musical chairs...

Author: By Ken Segel, | Title: Harvard Crews to Shift Seating | 4/19/1986 | See Source »

Pleasant as this official validation is for us, far more important are the accolades of hundreds of thousands of Kaplan "alums" like Harvard's Benjamin Reder, who said in your article, "I really do think [the Kaplan course] helps... but some people can't afford it." To correct the record on this issue as well, it should be emphasized that Kaplan does offer "scholarships" to qualified students. We do not anyone to be denied the competitive edge the Kaplan courses confer. Susan B. Kaplan New England Regional Administrator Stanley H. Kaplan Educational Center

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Kaplan Responds | 4/17/1986 | See Source »

First of all, America did not respond to terrorism, but to aggressive acts of war--under the guise of terrorism--sponsored by the state of Libya. The distinction is important. If reports are correct, Khadafy, with the help of Libyan diplomats working out of Libyan People's Bureaus in West Berlin, engineered an attack on a West German discotheque. Although terrorism was Khadafy's tool, his action was akin to a military attack. Seen in this light, the American military response is, at the very least, a justifiable move...

Author: By David J. Barron, | Title: Not a Precedent | 4/16/1986 | See Source »

...philosopher Friedrich von Schlegel philosophized: "What people call a happy marriage stands to love as a correct poem stands to an improvised song...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Amen of the Universe the Bourgeois Experience: Victoria to Freud; Volume Ii: the Tender Passion | 4/14/1986 | See Source »

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