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...progress? When it is not the actions of a deranged dictator threatening the world but the ordinary business of ordinary people? When there are no bombs dropping, nobody screaming, nothing to fear but a line on a graph or a handful of numbers on a computer printout? Dare we change the world on the basis of a wobbly line on a graph? We can change the world, and those numbers, slowly, painfully -- we can ration, recycle, carpool, tax and use the World Bank to bend underdeveloped nations to our will. But the problem is neither the world nor those numbers...
...pressing ahead, does the council dare address racial issues? Although racial tensions at Harvard have not reached the pitch of say, UMass or Stanford, race relations are arguably the greatest challenge before the student body. Witness last spring's unjustified seizure and search of two Black students by Cambridge police...
Before this year, I have never seen anyone dare to step out in public with a Baltimore baseball cap. Last year, a lot of fans wore paper bags. Now, wearing the insignia of a bird on your head is hipper than loafers without socks...
...When 1-2-3 passes, I dare any one of [the city councillors] to say, 'No, no. no. We don't want the affordable housing fund," he says...
Kenney, however, has other thoughts. Dare we say European ones...