Word: existences
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...cannot deny Sharfstein his idealism. Certainly, I, too, would love if Israel were not under constant attack and could exist in a region of peace and justice and love between enemies. I, too, expect Israel to live up to a higher standard than its Arab neighbors--to not sponsor international terrorism, to not force its children into battle as a propaganda technique, to punish, not reward, the violations of its soldiers. But Sharfstein fails to present a realistic argument in favor of open criticism of internal Israeli policy. His comparison with criticism of a Jewish religious issue is hollow...
While the quest for diversity in the student body is a noble one, Harvard did employ similar reasoning about preserving diversity to limit Jewish admittees before World War II. Whether or not such quotas exist, the University owes its community and its outside critics an explanation, one that does not rest lightly on vague ideals or blatant favoritism of alumni and athletes. Harvard can best do this by cooperating fully with the federal investigation and by going an extra step further and opening up its secretive admissions process to public examination...
...also implicitly recognized Israel by endorsing a U.N. resolution that guarantees all Middle East states the right to exist in peace and promised to restrict guerrilla activity...
...fanfare at last week's gathering of the P.L.O.'s parliament on the outskirts of Algiers, Arafat's new state came into existence in name only, a largely symbolic response by P.L.O. leaders who wanted to show some political results for the eleven-month-old Palestinian uprising in the Israeli-occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip. Only hours earlier, Arafat had overcome the protests of Palestinian hard-liners and persuaded the council to reverse its long-standing rejection of U.N. Resolutions 242 and 338, which - implicitly recognize Israel's right to exist. Needing a legal foundation for setting...
...extent that such "generational trends" towards certain careers do exist, it seems superficial to characterize them in such simplistic terms. Instead of viewing one generation of students as particularly concerned with America's role in the world and the next worrying about how it will make its student loan payments on time, we tend to see such fluctuations reduced to the lowest possible denominator: the former is deemed socially-minded, the latter greedy...