Word: failings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Wednesday night was a wonderful discussion. However, it stopped at discussion. Student panel member Sewell Chan '98 and Undergraduate Council President Beth A. Stewart '00 both expressed discontent with Harvard's role in promoting race relations, accusing the Administration of not taking a proactive stance. Yet they both fail to recognize that Harvard is an extremely multicultural campus, with a minority population of over 35 percent. If that is not a sign of the Administration's commitment to furthering the cause of racial integration and understanding, I do not know what...
...about Gifford's deep-seated fear of a Starbucks on every corner? As I have noted, in a capitalist system there will be as many Starbucks as--and no more than--the market will allow. And what is she afraid of, anyway? Simply that if the state planning boards fail to keep out fast food, there will be stores in the Square she (to hell with everyone else!) doesn't want to frequent...
...week's end officials insisted that the danger of a meltdown was receding. Nevertheless, suspense as to the eventual outcome buttressed the claims of nuclear power's foes that all the wondrous fail-safe gadgets of modern technology had turned out to be just as fallible as the men who had designed and built them. Declared Nuclear Power Critic Ralph Nader: "This is the beginning of the end of nuclear power in this country...
...environment is geared towards looking ahead and focusing on the future. In charting out our lives, however, we may concentrate too much on material success and external achievement without reflecting enough on developing as human beings. With all our concern for what we want to become, we must not fail to consider...
...fact that he has risen to the country?s No. 3 leadership position without a base among either old-guard purists or the liberal reformers wrestling for control of China's Communist party makes him an even more attractive candidate: Should he fail, it's easier for his superiors to -? so to speak -? disavow all knowledge of his actions...