Word: halt
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...snap to answer without even reading the book. Authors and terrorists have nothing -- zip, zero -- in common. One class creates, the other destroys; one competes in the marketplace for attention, the other commands it at gunpoint. Case closed. Those who are satisfied with such commonsense certainties, though, should probably halt their progress through Mao II, which bristles with unsettled and unsettling impressions: "Years ago I used to think it was possible for a novelist to alter the inner life of the culture. Now bomb- makers and gunmen have taken that territory. They make raids on human consciousness...
...January, Joel D. Hornstein '92 stood on the steps of Widener Library and said that, as far as the Gulf War was concerned, "the time for debate is over." We found Hornstein's attempt to halt discussion despicable. "The time for debate is never over." we insisted. "Never." Debate educates, debate enlightens. Debate prevents antagonism from festering beneath the surface. Debate gives unpopular intelligent viewpoints a chance to be aired. Debate gives unpopular idiotic viewpoints a chance to look idiotic...
...GHAIDA'S PLANS for a normal senior year came to a halt in August, 1990 when, serving as a summer school proctor, she learned of Iraq's invasion of Kuwait. The invasion and subsequent Gulf War disrupted and traumatized the lives of many Palestinians. For Abu-Ghaida, the war brought immense amounts of tension...
Many scholars say What they fear more than the perceived problem of PC is a backlash that could halt the gains that liberal scholarship has made. PC has, unfortunately, been an effective rallying cry for conservatives, they...
Violence in the black townships is partly a struggle for power between the Zulu-based Inkatha Freedom Party and the African National Congress. Thus outlawing weapons will not in itself halt the killing. The A.N.C. says De Klerk's move falls far short of meeting several demands to end the black vs. black bloodshed that must be satisfied before the organization ends its boycott of negotiations on a new political system. But the A.N.C. is not exactly doing all it can to promote a climate of peace. As it was criticizing De Klerk last week, the A.N.C. refused to attend...