Word: lessers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Abbas and two fellow fugitives were given life sentences, but the hijacker accused of actually killing the 69-year-old Leon Klinghoffer received a lesser sentence--30 years in prison...
...miles up 200 miles of the fabled Mississippi Delta. Yes, Faulkner came from here, but, more important to Malcolm White at the moment, so did B.B. King, Charlie Patton, Robert Johnson, Howlin' Wolf, Son House, Muddy Waters, John Lee Hooker, Sonny Boy Williamson and a lot of old lesser lights who still sing the blues off the front porches of tumbledown shacks. "Check this out," White said at one point. "We're going to pick up a blind man that's going to show us how to get to this other guy's house...
...democracy to other lands by throwing a switch or withdrawing support from a dictator evokes the image of the divine-right monarch ready to "give" a constitution to his people. Democracy can be helped and nurtured, but it cannot be given. It was imposed on Japan and to a lesser extent on West Germany by American occupation ! forces, but that happened in the exceptional and transforming circumstance of crushing defeat. Democracy must grow organically, in its own soil. Rebellion against arbitrary rule is relatively easy, but it is extremely difficult to organize a free society. Freedom, as logicians might...
...there as well) cannot be used, for instance, in a country like Turkey, which for decades was ravaged by civil strife and terror. The executive editor of the New York Times, A.M. Rosenthal, asked unhappily in a recent magazine article: "Do we really only have (a) choice between the lesser of evils?" In many cases and in much of the world, that is indeed the only choice we have. To recognize this is not to abandon or betray American ideals but only to see that these ideals require the support of practical and feasible policy...
...lower level of sophistication than is either prudent, safe or necessary. If The Crimson wants to enhance the divorce between scholarship and the CIA, it should also realize that such a divorce has serious and harmful consequences for the country as a whole. The Safran affair and to a lesser degree the Betts and Huntington issue indicate again that in the current climate at Harvard it takes courage to assist American intelligence agencies. It is not often that a scholar can both contribute to advancing knowledge and, at the same time, help his country. It is crucial that we defend...