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...Medvedkovs, Yureii and his wife Olga, are members of an unofficial Soviet peace group, The Moscow Group to Establish Trust Between the U.S. and the USSR. Their goal is disarmament, and they see "trust-building" as the best hope for peace. The group has a core of 11 people, with about 1000 supporters who have at different times attended their seminars and discussions...
...with common as well as unique characteristics, and to allow the other person the same opportunity. Just how much superficiality each of us needs or can tolerate may vary; sometimes we may dispense with it all together. Perhaps especially when doing missionary work, it is understandable to want to establish one's legitimacy as a complete person, rather than as a one-dimensional religious fanatic, through such preliminaries. If these preliminaries are inherently manipulative, so then are all efforts at amicability. I was offended to sense that Mr. Thompson felt that my or anyone's religious convictions could...
...historical narrative. O'Brien recounts the varieties of 19th century anti- Semitism in Europe and Russia. He follows the emergence of leaders like Theodor Herzl ("I shall be the Parnell of the Jews") and Chaim Weizmann, who successfully lobbied Britain to pass the Balfour Declaration of 1917 to help establish a Jewish homeland in Palestine. The document was an important seal of approval for Zionism, although His Majesty's government had ulterior motives. Among them was the need to get American Jews behind full U.S. involvement in World...
SOME EXPERTS ON America's correctional institutions have suggested that we establish a house arrest system for non-violent, first-time offenders. People sentenced to house arrest would be prohibited from leaving their homes except for work, medical appointments, and shopping for necessities. Parole officers and special electronic devices would ensure that these people obeyed the rules of their sentence...
During the 1920s, in response to the rising rate of Jewish matriculation (1 percent in 1881, 10 percent in 1918 and 22 percent in 1922), President A. Lawrence Lowell helped establish a new admissions system to combat the University's "Jewish problem." There were few Blacks at Harvard until the mid-20th century, only 160 before 1940. Black students were barred from the dormitories until 1923; they were segregated from whites in College residences until World War II. It seems that Harvard's much touted reputation for diversity and tolerance is a relatively recent phenomenon...