Word: extents
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Third, Harvard serves that public interest and to that extent its faculty and graduates are important activsts in the construction and implementation of policy in both public and private areas. The public interest will increasingly be served as the country becomes more minority in population, in education and in employment, by those who are sensitive and experienced in dealing with a variety of issues involving the role of minorities in virtually every phase of American life. How can Harvard, with fewer representatives of minorities than other institutions, continue to exercise its influence in public affairs given this future configuration...
...Chinese saying goes, "It takes more than one cold day for the river to freeze three feet deep." Among other achievements, four decades of communist rule succeeded to a great extent in suppressing the people's initiative and suffocating their independent minds. People felt that they were being maneuvered and betrayed, used and discarded. It was not only the disillusion resulting from economic failures that caused popular frustration, but also the constant spiritual abuse, which reached the most outrageous degree during the notorious Cultural Revolution...
...wrong. In all Communist societies, the principal purpose of the party -- and the only thing it does well -- has always been the preservation and enforcement of its own power. But that naked truth has traditionally been disguised with Marxist economics and ideology. To the extent that he de- Communized the economy and discredited ideology, Deng diminished the party's claim to legitimacy. He left the party all the more vulnerable to the flood of discontent that has so stunned the world in recent days. An improvement in living standards is not enough to meet the needs of the people...
Khomeini's illness has focused new attention on the question of his successor. Since he fired his appointed heir, Ayatullah Ali Montazeri, 65, in March, the spotlight has turned to Khomeini's son Ahmed, 43, who has been increasingly visible lately. The extent of Ahmed's influence became more apparent last week, when a 110-page memo surfaced in which he accused Montazeri of disloyalty. Khomeini the younger, however, must contend with powerful Parliamentary Speaker Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, who last week emerged from a visit with the Ayatullah to declare, "God willing, we will see the Imam for long...
...some extent. We fully understand that a new Administration needs a certain amount of time to assess its foreign policy priorities. But I will be able to give a fuller answer after my talks with Secretary of State James Baker. We have to begin working together. There are quite a few problems...