Word: leeway
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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WHERE does all this leave Harvard? Somewhere in legal limbo. In any other state, a private college like Harvard would have significant leeway in determining what speech should be permitted and what should be punished. But, as people from one end of the political spectrum to the other have pointed out, Massachusetts is not quite like any other state...
With Jews, that kind of reasoning is reversed: Jewish suffering does not entitle them to more leeway in trying to prevent a repetition of their tragedy, but to less. Their suffering requires them, uniquely among the world's sufferers, to bend over backward in dealing with their enemies...
...five months since De Klerk was elected to succeed Botha. With a speed that surprised almost everyone, the new and little-known President made a series of conciliatory moves, unofficially lifting a 30-year restriction on mass protests, releasing several prominent political prisoners and giving restricted antiapartheid groups some leeway to operate...
Harvard (4-8 overall, 0-1 Ivy) opened its league slate with a devastating 75-74 loss to Dartmouth last Saturday--a loss which leaves no leeway for any more slips. Realistically speaking, the Crimson can afford, at most, only three more defeats this year--and with two games against Princeton and a game at Dartmouth's Leede Arena remaining on the schedule, a loss this weekend makes any thoughts of the NCAA tournament, for now, mere dreams...