Word: demand
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Free and open discussion of controversial issues is vital to the future of our university community. Yet continued reliance on the Committee on Race Relations as a political tribunal will inevitably discourage teachers from raising precisely those issues that most insistently demand to be the subject of sustained and vigorous classroom debate. The Committee has a valuable and important role to play in improving race relations at Harvard. It would be a shame if it became transformed into a vehicle for character assassination and thinly veiled assaults upon the First Amendment. Richard John '81 GSAS...
...brink of selling the daily for about $40 million to Manhattan Developer Peter Kalikow. The agreement leaves so many escape hatches, however, that the outcome is far from certain. Kalikow can walk away from the deal if the Post's unions balk at the wage concessions he plans to demand. Murdoch has the right to back out if he overturns the cross-ownership ban in court or if he gets a better offer...
...growing crisis. Their discussions paved the way for Krawczyk, his family and another dissident to be escorted to West Germany. But, said Krawczyk last week, "we did not willingly leave. The alternatives we faced were either jail sentences of two to twelve years, or immediate emigration. We demand to be allowed to return to the German Democratic Republic...
...only way." Others dismiss such assertions. "Addicts do want treatment," contends Dr. Robert Newman, a founder of drug-treatment clinics and president of Manhattan's Beth Israel Medical Center. "It's wrong to think that as a group they don't care about their health." In fact, demand for IV drug-abuse treatment in New York increased after the news about AIDS hit the streets. "It is a classic case of a lesser evil," says the Rev. Roger Shinn, professor emeritus of social ethics at Manhattan's Union Theological Seminary. "The end, limiting the spread of AIDS, might justify...
According to Gorbachev, the Soviets will not demand that Afghanistan be neutral and non-aligned, phrasing that was once standard when Kremlin officials spoke of their neighbor's future...