Word: insists
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Some individuals insist any discrimination is wrong, as witness Jeanne Wirka, president of the Radcliffe Union of Students, quoted in the January-February 1985 issue of Harvard Magazine: "The problem with clubs is that they are denigrating to the outgroup in general. It's too bad that the issue has become 'should the clubs admit women?' The point is that the clubs should exclude everybody [sic]--they simply shouldn't be here, and Harvard shouldn't have anything to do with them." Jake Stevens '86, a member of the Committee on College Life, puts it less broadly, "The Committee acts...
...their shared characteristic, so long as their association does no great damage to those excluded. As, for instance, in the asymmetry between Harvard and Radcliffe; the men lose a few perquisites available to the women, but nothing of vital interest; the women, Radcliffe authorities (rather more than Radcliffe students) insist, profit greatly. Our national social history gives us plentiful reason to look askance at such groupings, but our political heritage should insulate us from the mistake of failing to distinguish between legitimate and illegitimate forms of free association...
...which arranges for Americans to travel to Nicaragua, were ransacked recently for the fourth time. "We think that the Government is behind these acts," said Garrett D. Brown, NICA's associate director, though he had no solid proof to support his theory. The FBI and Immigration and Naturalization Service insist they had nothing to do with the burglaries. "We are not involved in any illegal break- ins," said FBI Spokesman Bill Carter. He added, "If we did it, they wouldn't know it. We're better than that...
NASA scientists insist that given the briefness and the danger of the flybys, Astro-1 could actually end up gleaning more information about Halley's than the probes do. "Our mission may not be as dramatic," says Knox Long, a Johns Hopkins University scientist on the Astro project, "but we're getting the most bang for the buck...
...problem which characterizes both North and South America, according to Fuentes, is that neither has discovered the meaning of tragedy. And to those who insist that Latin American literature is full of tragedy, Fuentes replies: "Not tragedy, but crime... Tragedy means to recognize that both we and our opponent are right. We do not have that which Prometheus, Oedipus and Antigone had because we have been incapable of giving our opponent the same worth which we give ourselves...