Word: givens
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...class of 1939 will also receive insignia neckties, umbrellas and hats, while the 1954 graduates are being given shirts, tote bags and cassette tapes of "Voices of Harvard," made for the University's 350th anniversary. But members of the class of 1964, in addition to mugs and shirts, will take away a Harvard Swiss army knife...
...China, we have a long-standing tradition of student protest. It remains unclear whether this can be best attributed to bravery on the part of the students, or the unwillingness of adults to protest given the threat of government repression. It is deeply rooted in our national psyche that to be truly patriotic entails risking one's life. But the idea also dawned on many minds, in the dark years when people were deprived of their lives in humiliating circumstances, why not make a statement before you perish? Such is the attitude that hundreds of thousands of Chinese...
...Permission to entertain women guests will ordinarily be given only between the hours of four and seven p.m. except that on Saturdays and Sundays the hours may begin at noon. On Saturday evenings and evenings before holidays, the hours may be extended to eight p.m. in the Freshman dormitories and to midnight in the Houses...
...that for the same economic reasons as the Soviets, we too need disarmament. Eisenhower was right to say the problem of defense is how far can you go without destroying from within what you're trying to protect from without. Already we've gone too far when, on any given night, 100,000 American children go to sleep homeless. And we house our missiles so much better than we do our homeless...
...waiting around for Gorbachev to be overthrown by students the way students are doing it in China. So I don't see what's holding Bush back, except that over the past 40 years the U.S. has, narrowly speaking, profited from a divided and armed Europe. It has given us a lot of political and military leverage. It is clear that if Europe is disarmed and united, we will lose that leverage. But the benefits of a united and disarmed Europe are so enormous that it just shows an incredible poverty of politics not to give up this leverage...