Word: demanded
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...Depending on demand, these include ones thatemphasize applications to biochemistry, the socialsciences or physics, as well as others thatemphasize proofs or the use of computing,"Goroff says. "Student ratings of these specialsections have generally been quite high...
...also concerned that Harvard and the Ivy League refuse to demand public disclosure of factory locations. While the apparel manufactures claim that this information is a trade secret, disclosure is vital to ensure that those who monitor factory conditions are doing their jobs properly. With factory locations made public, sweatshops will have nowhere to hide. Major universities like Duke, Georgetown and the University of Wisconsin at Madison have already committed to full disclosure; in response, Harvard, a much richer institution with a national reputation for moral leadership, should not be afraid to join in this initiative. If American universities join...
...days on end and won guarantees of full public disclosure. Meanwhile, Central American and Asian garment workers make Harvard clothes under deplorable conditions, concealed by the continuous movement of the global economy. If we are committed to fighting global injustice, we must join with other American students to demand a policy guaranteeing that this outrage ends. Aron R. Fischer '99-'00 is a social studies concentrator in Dudley House. Benjamin L. McKean is a first year in Matthews Hall. They are both members of the Progressive student Labor Movement...
...which charms with the power of forgotten myth, an alibi against any accusations po-mo linguistic pretension. By recalling sleep, dreams, unrecoverable history (see "About Troy") and the personalities of dumb material objects (see "Elegy for the Departure of Pen Ink and Lamp"), Herbert selects the very topics that demand linguistic self-consciousness, save that topic of genocide and terror which Adorno famously said would make "all lyricafter the holocaust...barbaric...
...Serb president Slobodan Milosevic on Thursday made matters more difficult with the thumb-in-your-eye demand that the Albanians publicly renounce their dream of independence. Madeleine Albright again brandished the threat of air strikes if the Serbs torpedo the talks. That threat, plus the return of the British and French foreign ministers to prod the talks along, confirms that progress is slow. But NATO is hoping to move things along with its combination of bomb threats and buffets...