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Dates: during 1980-1989
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When the Reagan administration began its war against Nicaragua, I recognized a deeper affinity with that small country in a continent upon which I had never set foor....[A]fter all, I was myself the child of a successful revolt against a great power [and had] at least some knowledge of what weakness is like, some awareness of the view from underneath, and of how it felt to be there, on the bottom, looking up at the descending heel...

Author: By Michael E. Wall, | Title: Nicaraguan Contradictions | 4/20/1987 | See Source »

Last year, Bok's primary public contribution to the discussion about students demands foor more Third World (minority) faculty was a classic example of gratuitous wrongheadness. Bok allowed, to a Crimson reporter, that he (Bok) would stay out of the Law School debate unless (get this!) the Law School acquiested to the students' demands. In effect. Bok's counsel was that the Law School faculty should stonewall the student protesters, whether or not the students had a legitimate concern...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard and Minority Workers | 12/3/1983 | See Source »

Harvard's newest and smallest building was completed in early July. The live loot by live-foot-by-five-foor gatchouse inside Johnson Gate (8) was the end product of three years of haggling 800 designs by one of the Boston area's most prominent architects, and $25,000 from University coffers...

Author: By John F. Baughman, | Title: A New Look | 9/15/1983 | See Source »

...less government that Reagan and his associates want. It is merely different government--government dedicated to preserving hatreds instead of eliminating them. The goals are really little different than those of the men who stood at the schoolhouse doors 20 years ago and said Black students would never set foor inside their schools; the President's smiling face and amiable manner should not confuse the issue. Protests over the integration of schools and universities were the seed from which the civil rights movement grew and provided some of the proudest successes in three decades of domestic strife. Some optimists might...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Back to The Start | 1/12/1982 | See Source »

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