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...U.S.S.R. have lived with that contradiction. They have had the satisfaction of knowing their country was a superpower -- and the frustration of living in a backward economy. They made their homes in crowded, decrepit dwellings. Shopping for necessities was a daily despair. Citizenship itself was often an insult and sometimes an injury. Their government would not let them express their thoughts or travel abroad. For years they could explain it all away: the hardship was the aftermath of the Great Patriotic War against the Nazis; the repression was a response to the ever present threat of capitalist imperialism...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Year of People | 1/1/1990 | See Source »

...well as nine final clubs--probably has something to do with it. Harvard currently offers the final clubs access to the steam heat system, centrex phones and alumni records. Such involvement with groups that, as a matter of policy, exclude women, can only be seen as an insult to the principle of total equality of women...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Looking Back | 12/16/1989 | See Source »

...categorize students as athletes, musicians, or private school graduates is an insult to the individuality of each student...

Author: By Philip P. Pan, | Title: What's the Rush? | 12/14/1989 | See Source »

...calling Affirmative Action "not a good thing for Blacks," Thomson Professor of Government Harvey C. Mansfield said the program is "a kind of insult to the beneficiaries of it...It implies that you got [a position] without fully deserving...

Author: By Dhananjai Shivakumar, | Title: Professors Debate Active Recruitment of Faculty | 12/8/1989 | See Source »

Earlier this year Poland's Primate, Jozef Cardinal Glemp, objected to an agreement among four of his fellow prelates and Jewish leaders to remove a Carmelite convent that had been established at the Nazi death camp of Auschwitz. Although he later backed down, Glemp compounded the insult to Jews, charging "Your power lies in the mass media easily at your disposal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: American Abroad: Freedom's Ugly Underside | 11/27/1989 | See Source »

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