Word: defendable
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Huebner says he was struck by the widening cultural divide exposed as the United States purported to defend its interests through military invasions while most of Europe watched idly. His social studies thesis examined the rise of a new political discourse in America, one which heightened binary representations of the world and religious themes...
...Hopkins, while she continues to defend her decision to walk out, says she never expected to touch off a controversy...
...close-knit community like Harvard, one always walks a fine line of what is appropriate and what is not. As a result, we were constantly debating over which stories to run. When we were wrong, we issued corrections and sometimes apologized. While my initial reaction was to defend and justify the staff’s decisions at all costs, after listening to the views of our primary audience, the Harvard community at large, I realized that we didn’t always get it right...
...disgusted at our coverage. He gave me further feedback. Many other students had already flooded my e-mail inbox with similar feelings. The more I spoke with other students and administrators, the more I realized that he represented the feelings of the majority on this issue. I wanted to defend my organization because we had worked very hard to cover the story in the fairest way possible. When I looked at the picture we published, I could not deny that it appeared inappropriate. So, I did what I knew was right. As a leader of The Crimson, I took...
Harvard has bandits. They’re bundled between the pages of cryptic, bland reports about the curricular review; they lurk behind the provost’s wresting away faculty control of grants; they laugh as departments defend themselves after falling out of favor with Mass. Hall. The secretive, non-participatory, top-down processes brought to Harvard by the current administration threaten a key principle of university governance: those who lead the University’s intellectual life, the tenured women and men of Harvard, are best suited to make decisions affecting that intellectual life...