Word: existences
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Though the British Foreign Office said there will be no more involuntary repatriations this year, they are certain to resume unless other nations offer an alternative. The boat people, says a senior British diplomat, "are chasing a dream that doesn't and can't exist." At least not in Hong Kong...
Although helpful in alerting students to offensive behavior, the public declarations do not explore why such attitudes exist, and how they might be changed. The University's implicit acceptance and subsidization of all-male clubs--including the Pi Eta as well as nine final clubs--probably has something to do with it. Harvard currently offers the final clubs access to the steam heat system, centrex phones and alumni records. Such involvement with groups that, as a matter of policy, exclude women, can only be seen as an insult to the principle of total equality of women...
...speaks of confederation today, one must ask, On what basis? It would be necessary to have a common foreign policy, a common defense policy. I ask you, Do these conditions exist? We are prepared to leave the Warsaw Pact, if the Federal Republic is prepared to leave NATO. So long as both states remain in their political and military alliances, a confederation of the two states is simply not possible...
...forcing the rest of the Arab world to play catch-up. Jordan's King Hussein took his cue last year by revoking his claim to the West Bank. Last December P.L.O. Chairman Yasser Arafat made capital out of the uprising by renouncing terrorism and recognizing Israel's right to exist...
...save a life. Put together they are like a locomotive running at 100 miles an hour." The sweep of that force troubles many experts. Says George Annas of Boston University's School of Medicine: "The technological imperative obliterates the person altogether. It acts as if the person doesn't exist -- that she has no personality, no family, and that no one who loves her can make decisions about her." But other experts believe that advocates of self-determination often skip over a basic question in incompetent-patient cases. Asks University of Michigan law professor Yale Kamisar: "Whose rights are being...