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...article of March 17. The University's intimate and massive involvement with the city of Cambridge demands close scrutiny of Harvard's development and housing policies by students. tenants and politicians. The officials quoted in the article have termed the committee's conclusions "misleading"; our conclusions "mislead" only insofar as they lead students away from the official and incomplete picture that the Corporation constructs of its position and role in the city...
...difference politically, and that's when Henry made his famous "Peace is at hand" statement, and I had to back off of it. Henry had greater confidence in the efficacy of negotiations than I had. I think that is the difference. He thought that even fanatics would be reasonable insofar as negotiating is concerned. He could not accept the fact of all of the forces going against him. I used to say, "Henry, I'll take care of the politics...
Legally, Schkolnick may have a point; she's a law student who knows a lot more torts than I do. But her argument disguises the moral absurdity of her position: insofar as the Fly Club is a party-throwing, public, social organization (although certainly not a major component of most Harvard students' social lives), it does not discriminate against women...
That bedrock contention of the cold war simply does not stand up these days. Insofar as the Kremlin still calls the tune, it is sounding retreat. In the past year the U.S.S.R. has removed its army from Afghanistan, prevailed on Viet Nam to withdraw its troops from Cambodia, and helped begin extricating the Cubans from Angola...
Sometimes it seems as if Jews are entitled to protection and equal moral consideration only insofar as they remain victims. Oriana Fallaci once said plaintively to Ariel Sharon, "You are no more the nation of the great dream, the country for which we cried." Indeed not. In establishing a Jewish state, the Jewish people made a collective decision no longer to be cried for. They chose to become actors in history and not its objects. Historical actors commit misdeeds, and should be judged like all nation-states when they commit them. It is perverse to argue that because this particular...