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...generation has had plenty of opportunity to sacrifice. Sept. 11 should have been the impetus for change, but very little has occurred. There were few calls to conserve gas or find alternative sources of energy. Some people entered the military, but the masses simply kept going about their daily lives, going to the mall without a second thought about participation. The much-hyped youth vote never materialized in 2004. The war in Iraq provided another opportunity. But there was no draft, nor hundreds of Harvard students trying to enlist. We did not protest in large numbers. Rather there...
...severity of the rodent problem in Adams was the impetus for a University-wide rodent-control program led by Harvard’s entomologist, Gary Alpert, who works in the University’s Office of Environmental Health and Safety...
...said that the ivory tower has fallen. This is no secret in the world at large, where “The Da Vinci Code” tops bestseller lists and serves as both the primary impetus for, and evidence in, ‘theological debates’ among the enlightened masses. In a culture where a talk show host’s approval immortalizes novels, where the most well-known humanitarian is a rock star, and where movie stars can popularize a religion created by a science fiction novelist, we cannot expect much in the way of literary and intellectual...
...vulnerability of black women, of most minority women in America who have never been protected from sex crimes by (white) men - at least not in the way that white women were historically "protected" from black men. That notion of protecting the white female chastity was the impetus behind anti-miscegenation laws, and countless lynchings - including those of Emmitt Till, and, less famously, James Cameron, a black man who was accused of murder and rape in Marion, Ind., in 1930 and survived his attempted lynching, though his two co-defendants did not. Anticipating his imminent death at the hands...
...pretty rare. The impetus for it comes from the fact that after the war in Vietnam, it seemed like the generals at the time, both in and out of the service, had been too quiet. By going along with the escalation of the war, with a policy that was neither pull out nor all-out, their silence had actually been - as written in the book Dereliction of Duty - a failure of responsibility. My guess is the memory of that, which still probably haunts the military, creates an atmosphere now that is a spur to these retired generals to speak their...