Word: good
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...fact, these Harvard ever-faithful couldn't really come up with any good reasons of their own for giving money. So, instead, they resorted to the next best thing: they sent seniors a red, ready-made gift-giving pamphlet from the Harvard-Radcliffe Fund (based in Holyoke Center, if you had any doubts about who's really running the show)--entitled, interestingly enough, "Tough Questions...
That Vietnam did not fit into the paradigm of good and evil contributed to the U.S. failure there, he said...
...Harvard good, Duke bad. Is that fair? Let's suppose that I, having only been at Harvard a few days, walked into a common room of one of these university's grand houses and overheard some male students referring to a woman as a girl, or making racial slurs, or even claiming that another region of the country has no culture. (I think we can all agree that this is not an inconceivable scenario.) Let's further suppose that I already knew some things about Harvard--say, that this University still has money invested in South Africa, while Duke divested...
...Lawrence Watson, co-chair of the Association of Black Faculty and Administrators at Harvard, "If Harvard as the premier institution that trains the best and brightest is a place that is absent of the best Black men and women, it sends a message that we are not very good." This report followed an equally critical report 10 years earlier. Ten years, 20 years...how long must women and minorities wait on Harvard's good graces...
When we stopped for an hour or so at the dacha (twelve miles outside Moscow) where Daniel spent the last years of his life, the police turned up unexpectedly and announced in embarrassment that as foreigners we were "violating a forbidden zone." The good-natured policemen did little to hide the fact that they were being forced to draw up a report on the orders of the KGB. The quiet snowfall beyond the window, reminding us of an old-style Russian winter, was our reward for this "violation...