Word: defenders
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...task for having homogeneous work forces. "Hey," upper-level management types will say, "we looked for qualified folks. There just were no black candidates." It's the old "N.B.C." answer, and in the face of a historic turnabout, the National Broadcasting Co. happens to be using said answer to defend its just-announced fall season. NBC, the network that broadcast the pioneering Cosby Show in the '80s, the network that carried the Nat King Cole Show in the 1950s when virtually no advertisers were willing to sponsor a variety show hosted by a black man, will not have a single...
DIED. EDWARD GURNEY, 82, President Nixon's staunchest defender on the Senate Watergate Committee; in Winter Park, Florida. Gurney, Florida's first Republican Senator since Reconstruction, gave up his seat in 1974 to defend himself, successfully, against corruption charges...
After the image tune-up, Yeltsin tried for a while to defend his record, and the indexes of progress he listed were accurate: lower inflation, significant hard-currency reserves, a generally more open, demand-driven economy. When citing his achievements did not improve his standing, Yeltsin argued that the corner has been turned on austerity. "The most difficult period is over," he said as recently as last month. "We have survived. Don't lose hope." Each time he used that line, he was booed...
With this policy the College has again demonstrated its general disrespect for students' maturity and self-knowledge. Without any valid justification, a student can be forced to defend his health record in front of one omnipotent administrator. This is an unwarranted intrusion on students' privacy. --Jeff Redding '96, for the Executive Board of the Civil Liberties Union of Harvard
...which took place 1968, one year after Ehrenburg's death, and comments offhandedly that it was "a cause Ehrenburg surely would have supported." Rubinstein seems to have forgotten his own account of how, during the similar 1956 revolt in Hungary, Ehrenburg was dispatched to a foreign writers' conference to defend Khrushchev's brutal intervention against criticism, a job he performed without complaint. True, Ehrenburg was no fawning Stalinist; but to imply that he was some sort of conscientious objector trivializes the sacrifices made by real dissidents...