Word: defenders
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...hard to wrestle in private with his decision to rewrite the family history, it was harder to have to explain it in public, to defend her parents against the charge that their heroic story had been somehow airbrushed. Albright would tell a friend the night after the Post story broke that she felt shaken and somehow violated. The implications of the questioning--What did she know and when did she know it?--made it sound as though the story she was so proud of was somehow false, rather than incomplete. By the next day, she would be defending her parents...
During the course of our Harvard careers, one word is continually shot at us like a bullet from a rifle. Diversity, diversity, diversity. Harvard seeks to provide its students with the most diverse environment possible. This is ostensibly why the administration and many students continue to defend affirmative action in making admissions decisions. This, it seems, is also why Dean Harry Lewis decided to go forward with randomization. But has it all worked? Has Harvard succeeded in providing its students with the most diverse atmosphere possible? Unfortunately, the answer is no. Race relations and inter-communication on this campus...
...White House and congressional Democrats, and Gore and Gephardt specifically, is infecting Clinton's second term. Certain to be a central topic at the labor conference is the President's offer to curb Medicare spending by $14 billion more than he proposed last winter. Gore will have to defend the larger cut, which White House aides insist was a necessary good-faith gesture toward congressional Republicans. But Gephardt can say the White House is giving away too much, too early. In his first public reaction to Clinton's new Medicare number, the Missouri Democrat said it "sounds high...
Vladeck, while acknowledging that industry lobbying was influential, says he would "comfortably defend each change on its merits." He also notes that the industry did not get all it asked for. Shalala, who was traveling in Europe, could not be reached for comment. Solomont, meanwhile, says that with his new job as finance chairman, the pressure increases "not to create an impression I was using that role in a way that was self-serving" and "not to be seen as representing any particular group." But then he adds, "Having said that, I'm not about to check what I believe...
...When you give up that many three-point shots, it becomes a frustrating thing." Harvard coach Frank Sullivan said. "[Before tonight] we were doing a very good job. We take pride in how we defend the three-point shot...