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...campaign against Media-Most "politically motivated" and "deeply disappointing." But more dramatic moves, such as excluding Russia from meetings of the G-8 group of industrialized nations or blocking its access to the World Trade Organization, were only idly discussed. "If the Russian people are not willing to defend this valuable achievement," said a State Department official, "then it's not up to us to defend...
...defend one's dignity, even as one copies the ways of other civilizations, is to make a fetish of national uniqueness. It might seem from the outside that Japanese had remade themselves in the Western mold, wearing Western clothes, adopting Western ideas, imitating Western institutions, but somewhere deep down in the core of every true-born Japanese lay a purely Japanese soul, unsullied by anything alien. The phrase for this was wakon yosai, "Japanese spirit, Western knowledge." Western culture and learning, it was implied, was only for the head; the heart remained resolutely native...
After starting the Ivy season with four wins and two losses, the Crimson closed out by winning seven of eight contests, including six straight conference games. The Big Red was 4-2 over that stretch, allowing Harvard the opportunity to make a comeback and defend its title...
...love that flag, and I love my heritage," says Paris, who doesn't defend slavery but argues it was accepted in both the South and the North, and "Old Glory flew over slavery as well." To Paris, the rebel flag was not a symbol of slavery or hatred. Especially not after he went to Ole Miss and waved it at football games...
Like our next president, Rosovsky was an economist by training, and so tends to think of interests in influence in those terms. He does defend the infamous aphorism, in a slightly different form: Rosovsky claims universities cannot and must not be democracies. As the greatest number of people are students spending the shortest amount of time here, their desires must be seen in that light, and permanence—tenure, a long degree program, a long record as an employee—must trump the energetic whim of the student body...