Word: humanize
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...week, in the twilight of his presidency, he was back to his specialty, this time amid the onion domes of Moscow. Strolling around Red Square, talking to priests, writers, students and refuseniks, toasting his hosts at gala dinners, the President was unmistakably campaigning -- primarily on behalf of American- style human rights but also, and somewhat confusingly, on behalf of his opposite number and sometime adversary, the General Secretary of the Soviet Communist Party...
...both, it was a complex task. Reagan had to praise Gorbachev's drive for glasnost and perestroika while still making clear that it does not yet go nearly far enough, and he had to criticize the Soviet human-rights performance sharply without attacking Gorbachev personally. Gorbachev had to alternate between chumminess with Reagan and resentment of his unabashed preachiness...
According to the Office of Human Resources, 50 percent of the Harvard administration--including both senior posts and middle managers--is female. Yet, critics of the University charge that most women in the administration work at the bottom levels, as secretaries and lower-rung supervisors...
These veterans of radical politics compare the current surge in interest to that of the early 1960s, but they say students are now more sober and pessimistic than their predecessors. They want to change their campuses, not the world; they try to change specific attitudes, not human nature itself...
...like hair color, is unworthy of differential privilege. In this light, "education," in the sense of liberating one from prejudice, is agreed to be impossible and attempts to reward merit are rendered corrupt. Hence there is no reason not to ensure "equality of outcomes" for any population, whether of human beings or books...