Word: interesting
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...guerilla theatre." What exactly this means to COCA I'm not sure, but it is obvious what it has come to mean to me, and to a lot of other people. COCA has done a great disservice to a politically torn country, one which needs sympathetic interest from those with wealth and power. Alienation is not activism...
...been intensely interested in Latin American political and economic affairs for several years, I had considered joining COCA before coming to Harvard. I read with interest COCA's description of itself as an organization devoted to proclaiming and preserving the sovereignty of the legitimate governments of Central America. Yet after attending its introductory meeting during my first week here and reading some of its literature, I gradually came to the realization that COCA was no such thing...
Great as our differences are over what happened in Tiananmen Square, our differences were infinitely greater when we established relations in 1972 after 23 years of no communication whatever. But we recognized then that while we had irreconcilable differences, we had one overriding common interest that brought us together -- the need to develop a common policy to deter an aggressive and expansionist Soviet Union that threatened us both. Today, when the conventional wisdom is that the Soviet threat has diminished and when many even proclaim that the cold war is over, do we still have a common interest that overrides...
There is a very dangerous trend in this country, and in the world in general, to focus attention on problems of current popular interest, leaving other equally pressing but less publicized matters unaddressed. Saving our forests is certainly a very popular issue these days. Thousands have responded to increased media attention and the pleas of pop stars like the Grateful Dead and David Byrne by hopping onto the arboreal bandwagon. The fate of the world's forests and woodlands is indeed an important issue, but what about the other less trendy "wet spots" on our hypothetical...
...events at the Law School this fall suggest that many students there would like the legal profession to mean more than just yuppiedom. Students were enraged when Dean Robert C. Clark closed the school's public interest law counseling office over the summer. Hundreds attended a rally protesting his action, and about two-thirds of the student body signed a petition calling for the school to do more to encourage its students to seek careers providing legal aid to the needy...