Word: defendents
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...agree with LeRoy Collins (Crimson 16 May) that the assault on a Harvard student by the non-Harvard "thug" at Tommy's Lunch last Saturday was reprehensible, and I admire the courage of the second Harvard student who intervened to defend the first. What I still don't understand, after hearing several accounts of the incident, is why the anger, indignation, sense of the need for action now, that people present felt at the time, did not result in a simple call to the Harvard police as soon as it became apparent (which must have been very early on) that...
...defend the principle of free speech even for those with whom we deeply disagree, and we abhor the district's attorney's action. But the Quincy House Film Society should never have allowed the issue to become a legal one. Because controversy over the film had been flaring for more than two weeks, the society, Quincy House Master Charles Dunn and other College authorities had more then enough time to agree not to screen the film--solely on moral grounds. While "legal" action must never hinder First Amendment right, in this case proper moral judgment should have obviated the legal...
...countryside and offered tax exemptions to American companies opening plants on the island. His proudest moment came in 1952, when Congress granted Puerto Rico commonwealth status, giving it more autonomy and entitling it to federal grants without extracting income taxes. In the 1970s, he left retirement to defend this achievement against those who favored statehood or independence; misguided bickering, he warned, was "sapping the strength of the people...
Founded in Italy in 1889 by poets and men of letters "trying to defend the Italian language against the invasion of French and English terms," the Dante Society, with 310 chapters worldwide, has since become a vehicle for the diffusion of Italian language and culture throughout the world. The society is named for the 13th-century Italian poet whose "Divine Comedy," an imaginary excursion through the Inferno (hell), Purgatory and Paradise (heaven) is one of the classics of Italian literature...
...penal system is hard to rationalize on practical grounds and even harder to defend on moral ones. Prisons foster inhumanity, brutality and violence. Beatings, stabbings, rape-all are commonplace. Inmates murder inmates in U.S. prisons at the rate of about 100 a year. Wretched conditions just about everywhere have so persisted that the prison exposé has long been a hardy perennial of popular journalism. A voluminous genre of literature and drama has grown up around a singular theme of prison rebellions. Prison evils have been documented in thousands of articles, hundreds of books and scores of legislative reports...