Word: daring
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...That is, until the men get into trouble for sexually harassing their female colleagues. Then the men are "boys being boys." And the women? Those who deflect sexual advances risk being labeled by some men as lesbians, a threat that can cost a woman her military career. Those who dare to complain are often branded as "too soft." Such is the backdrop against which women in the armed forces must determine whether it is worth registering a complaint when a male colleague steps out of line. Although a 1990 Pentagon study found that fully two-thirds of U.S. servicewomen have...
...Alexander, be cast as Anna. It is the film's great coup. She is not exactly beautiful, but her conviction and radiance carry the story's emotional burden: that such a woman could love such a man. The strength of her love is an almost mystical mystery that Bergman dare not explain, or even understand, but is pleased to present...
There is still a moral basis for intervention, and the U.N. dare not flunk a test case of its ability to cope with the ethnic wars that increasingly loom as the greatest threat to world peace. So far, however, public opinion in the U.S. and Western Europe has not seen any strategic or humanitarian interests at sufficient risk to justify the sacrifice of one soldier's life. Even a carefully planned intervention that matches adequate force to clear and achievable political aims may not change that opinion. A slapdash expedition for unclear ends would have no chance...
...belief that your religion is truest or right (not just "right for you") is the new "love that dare not speak its name" at Harvard. Though this is the belief that traditionally motivates religious individuals, it's perceived here as a threat to pluralism or a perpetuation of Eurocentrism: who are you to say your heritage is better than another's? Religious students I know have often felt pressured to act as if their personal faith were a "lifestyle choice" like choosing to dye your hair blonde...
...takes a fair amount of boldness and initiative to find them. All professors are required to hold office hours. But few students dare go--especially to the best-known faculty luminaries. And few professors take any steps to make themselves more accessible, by teaching or even visiting sections, or by eating regularly in their affiliated Houses...