Word: leon
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...scholarly qualities of the individuals named are made to appear secondary to sex or race. This academic community is damned lucky to have recruited Professor Moore. When I meet her, I will apologize for the demeaning incivility of the Crimson story. Sexism appears to be no faculty monopoly. Leon Elsenberg Presley Professor of Social Medicine
Haig is widely credited with having persuaded Nixon in the end to resign. There are still charges that Haig defended Nixon altogether too zealously, but most of those who dealt with Haig then insist that he preserved his own integrity and balance. Says Leon Jaworski, the Watergate special prosecutor, of the many legal battles between them: "Haig never raised his voice. He was never ugly, and I said some things that could have made him hit the ceiling. He believed in Nixon [but in the end] felt he had been lied to; it hurt him" Nixon recommended that Gerald Ford...
...Leon fails, though, because the relationship between him and the residents is a two-way street. Until they also love Leon, his efforts disappear. Because of a lack of love for the majority, many in power today are able to argue against quota-based affirmative action. If institutions set a specific level of minority acceptance in their admissions policy, the reasoning goes, these students might feel stigmatized and separated from the others...
Quotas for admittance would, however, supply the fastest way of remedying society's past mistakes. Once remedying the evil of ignorance is recognized as a necessity, as Leon does, one must adopt the quickest way of achieving equality of educational opportunity for all. If the bond of love could replace self-interest, quotas and other affirmative action tools would pose no problems...
...Sophia falls in love with Leon, thus supplying the connection that removes the 200 year-old curse, and allowing Simon fans to walk out of the theater happy. And the story doesn't finish there. When ignorance has been conquered, a new society evolves in Kulyenchikov with different problems. The innocent fish vendor becomes an insufferable capitalist, and Sophia is no longer willing to accept Leon's opinions at face value. But life is now fuller for everyone in Kulyenchikov. There can be no going back...