Word: dares
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Feeling it insufficient to degrade themselves by means of classroom demonstrations, the so-called Harvard Heritage Society has now turned its infantile temper against those who dare to take a stand against them. Specifically, I refer to the recent letter in reply to Scott M. Singer '98. While Singer offered sage and judicious commentary on the Society's actions, the Society, ostensibly dedicated to the defense of boundless free speech, replied by dismissing Singer's arguments, comparing him to Confederate President Jefferson Davis...
...Olatunji Dare, editorial board chair of a Nigerian newspaper, will be awarded the 1995 Louis L. Lyons Award for Conscience and Integrity in Journalism by Harvard's Nieman Foundation later this month...
...Dare, who wrote for the Guardian, a newspaper in Lagos, Nigeria, was cited for his courage in the face of a military crackdown on press freedoms...
...Dare "refuses to restart the paper with the conditions the government laid down," said Bill Kovach, curator of the Nieman Foundation...
...that he can easily walk back to his point of origin. But he hardly ever seems surprised by or interested in the oddities of his situation. Why do people keep complimenting him on an after-dinner speech he failed to deliver? Why do all the local monologists speak--I dare say, mind you, if I may say so--in polite British locutions...