Word: fighting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...publisher of La Prensa, Violeta Chamorro, received the award for her paper's fight to keep a free press alive in Nicaragua, the Nieman Foundation said...
Does this mean that scholars are thus prevented from being patriots and from taking part in the fight against "communist states and international terrorism"? Obviously not. They can engage in a consulting relation with the CIA or other government agencies--as long as it is not clandestine. They can even, if they chose to do so, accept CIA funding for their academic work--as long as it is disclosed. Pre-publication censorship, however, raises issues Professor Herf brushes under the rug: how does he know that the "pre-publication clause" is only "designed to ensure that no classified material...
...Basically, there was no difference of opinion. Everyone agreed, but we just didn't want to fight over wording," Eric Mazur, a member of the council who is an assistant professor of physics, said following last week's meeting...
...blind lawyer who uses his secret "radar sense" to prowl the rooftops as DD) became a real character, a pathological vigilante with a conscience. Miller was questioning the superhero, the great convention of the comic book form: the citizen, gifted by fate, who selflessly puts on longjohns to fight evil. At least the villains use their laser-beam eyes for material gain--what do the heroes...
...Harvard's stance against total divestment, Bok said it is unlikely that such an action would benefit the cause of Black South Africans, but that it would likely compromise the independence of the University. He said he was disappointed that divestment activists targetted Harvard rather than Congress in the fight to punish the South African government...