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...earliest and most consistent doves, McGovern figures that Muskie's record is vulnerable on the war and military spending in general. "Viet Nam," said McGovern, "is just the most grievous manifestation of a world view that is based on what we're afraid of rather than what we stand for. I was a bomber pilot in World War II. I'm not a pacifist. I think we've now lost sight of the absolutely essential need for coexistence, even with countries with whom we don't agree." He has also championed the poor, argued...
...rule of pagan Rome, the Jews of Palestine in the 1st century A.D. repeatedly defied their conquerors with covert gestures of opposition and open acts of rebellion. The Roman response was usually swift and cruel. Perhaps because he participated in one of these uprisings or committed some other grievous offense in the eyes of Jerusalem's stern rulers, a young Judean named Yehohanan (a Hebrew form of John) was sentenced to death. Like thousands of other Jews-including Jesus of Nazareth -who were also condemned by the Roman procurators during those turbulent years, Yehohanan died slowly and painfully...
...view of the author of this early flyer the employees' strike was clear evidence of the University's mistreatment of its workers ("Harvard University uses scab labor and maintains oppressive working conditions"). You, the students, were called to a show of virtuous indignation to help set the grievous wrong right. And I remember certain young members of the faculty marched with the dissident students on this occasion...
...months-a fact that did not come to light until two months ago because the books had not been kept up to date. Pergamon is writing off the $5,000,000 it invested in International Learning; Maxwell admits that failing to provide adequate management for the venture represents "a grievous error of judgment...
...environmental artists [June 29] can't be real! They have closed their eyes to the exquisite beauty of natural phenomena and abused the landscape with their egotistical dalliances. In so doing, they have added to the grievous misuse of our environment. Their creations are self-portraits that portray man as a polluter-dumping massive doses of dye, burning gas and haphazardly inoculating sterile zones with microorganisms...