Word: fighting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Kouri left Harvard in 1958, during his sophomore year at the College, to fight in the Cuban Revolution under Fidel Castro. He earned a medical degree in Cuba but was condemned to death in 1965 for his opposition to Castro's communist policies, he said...
...thing to discuss these ideals in a classroom, and another thing when you must fight to sustain them. In the application of these principles you have a real sign, whether you are faithful to them or not faithful to them," he said...
According to Haddad, that fight has caused cracks in what he called Lebanon's "thin veneer of civilization...
...help when the country is needs it. Scholars are under no obligation to offer assistance to the CIA but should their convictions impel them to do so, their decisions should be respected no less than those of the left-leaning scholars of the 1940s who went to Washington to fight Hitlerism. What was right for Marcuse and Moore in the 1940s is no less so for Safran and Huntington in the 1980s...
Degou said he doubted that any Harvard students participated in the fight, which started when one combatant hit another with a stick, he said...