Word: egalitarians
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...major problems is that the government seems to view education first as a privilege, and they don't view it in egalitarian terms," says James B. King, Northeastern's senior vice president for government and community affairs...
...voting is egalitarian, but that may be one of its problems. Last summer NARAS sent a form to each of its 8,000 members and to executives at the major record companies soliciting nominations for recordings released during the 12 | months ending last Sept. 30. Each member -- including singers, songwriters, album-cover designers, engineers and producers -- is allowed to recommend up to five candidates in each award category. That list becomes the ballot that is mailed out to the 6,000 members eligible to vote...
...questions, doubts and fears surrounding these children are some of the most wrenching consequences of the nation's decision to develop an all- volunteer military and to give women an expanded and more egalitarian role in it. Only now is the Pentagon conducting a survey to determine how many single parents and military couples with minor children are on active duty. Some experts guess that 140,000 people are married to others in the military and that 67,000 single parents are in the U.S. armed forces. Suddenly, many mothers and fathers who joined the services in peacetime to begin...
...quest for world peace, for human rights, for egalitarian societies is a noble one indeed. Individual oppression and mass genocide, on all counts, is reprehensible. But let's not set up the Cold War dichotomies of "good" and "evil" anymore. Let's not congratulate Bush and his military strategists on their bloody war, while we slap their hands for not beating on someone else...
Please know that if you ever see me outside your club's doors, I am not waiting to come in. If I am ever outside those doors, I will be shouting and demanding an end to the institution to which you now belong. I will be demanding an egalitarian Harvard that offers all of its members--regardless of class, race or gender--an opportunity to create a space on their own terms...