Word: existence
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...light of Radcliffe's forseeable financial difficulties, the next president must give undergraduate women a reason to believe that the institution should still exist, or contributions will dwindle as graduates cease to identify with the historical women's college...
...said at the Kiss-in that the incident which precipitated the Kiss-in "sprang from misunderstanding." I'm deeply dismayed that the Kiss-in seemed to some an endorsement of one version of the incident. Some Mather residents feel accused of bigotry because conflicting versions of the incident exist. A person is not bigoted for thinking that harassment may have occurred in both directions...
ALTHOUGH it would have been commendable if no one had been offended by the kiss-in, such a reaction was unlikely. Because complete tolerance does not exist at Harvard, the kiss-in should have bothered people, and I'm glad...
...much of the past two months, Salman Rushdie has been defending himself and his book. "The thing that is most disturbing is that they are talking about a book that doesn't exist," he said. "The book that is worth killing people for and burning flags for is not the book I wrote." As Rushdie saw it, his book "isn't actually about Islam, but about migration, metamorphosis, divided selves, love, death, London and Bombay." The sad irony, he said, is "that after working for five years to give voice and fictional flesh to the immigrant culture of which...
...social problem of these dimensions cries out for close, active attention. We can no longer avert our eyes, admitting that there is a problem but refusing to confront it; neither can we become so hardened to the problem that compassion and empathy no longer exist. If the latter scenario ever becomes commonplace, we will have lost the last remnants of our humanity...