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...strongly disagree with the opinion of Eden Williams that we segregate ourselves to the detriment of racial relations. Our mere decision to attend Harvard University over such traditionally Black institutions as Hampton, Fisk or Howard Universities demonstrates our knowledge of "reality" as she perceives it. Yet we must vehemently denounce the notion that the awareness of this "reality" must be translated into assimilation and loss of our culture. Rather, we argue that the maintenance of one's own culture is essential in an effort to respect and appreciate dissimilar ones. Ms. Williams and those who concur with her are obviously...
...fellows. Socrates may have been content to contemplate his doctrines in the ivory tower. But if Stone's history can at all be relied upon, these ideas found their way into the hands of those anxious to act upon them. The government set up benefitted the few to the detriment of the many Socrates did not say a word...
...most of the Soviets' political freedoms have never existed in practice or are locked in a straitjacket of limitations. Article 39, for example, is a loophole as wide as the ruling regime wants to make it: "Enjoyment by citizens of their rights and freedoms must not be to the detriment of the interests of the society or the state...
...upheaval was the almost inevitable result of attacks on Allegis from all sides. Its pilots were pressing to buy the airline because they felt Ferris was spending too much time and money buying hotels, to the detriment of the company's core business. Meanwhile, dissident shareholders, led by a trio of Manhattan-based investors called Coniston Partners, launched a campaign to oust management, arguing that the company would be worth far more if it were broken into pieces and sold. The critics pointed to the firm's lackluster financial performance: its net income was only $11.6 million last year...
...These sales are to the detriment of the community because they deplete the stock of reasonably affordable housing," says Michael H. Turk, an outspoken proponent of Cambridge's system of rent control...