Word: lessers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...sees polish and refinement. I see a tenure of increasingly conservative backlash, including 1. a policy of exclusion. Of Skocpol from sociology (and perhaps political purging at the Law School), of women and minorities (of whom one report to the president suggested less of--they would be "happier" at "lesser institutions"), of medical workers from unions, of faculuty members from a day-to-day governance of Harvard. 2. a policy of deference. To the corporations that do business in South Africa. Bok has become a leading national spokesman for acquiescense in their line of defense: that Black South Africans...
...navy commander, Admiral Emilio Massera, 60, guilty of homicide, illegal detention and other human rights violations. The two were stripped of their military rank and sentenced to life imprisonment. Three co-defendants, including Roberto Viola, 61, who succeeded Videla as President, were found guilty of lesser charges, deprived of military rank and given sentences ranging from 4 1/2 to 17 years. The remaining four officers--among them General Leopoldo Fortunato Galtieri, 59, who as President from 1981 to 1982 initiated the ill-fated war with Britain over the Falkland Islands--were acquitted...
Well, what does it really matter? Hamlet is Hamlet whether it was written by the shadowy figure known as Shakespeare or by Sir Francis Bacon or even by one of those lesser claimants like the Earl of Oxford. For that matter, we know hardly anything at all about the creator of The Odyssey, whether he was a man or a woman, one poet or many. Still, any printed work is a reproduction, one of many. And though even a reproduction of a great painting can have a powerful effect, there is something magical about the uniqueness of the original...
...Reagan's dismal (and revealing) round one performance was disturbing, the case with which he regained his good standing was nothing less than horrifying. Despite an otherwise mediocre performance riddled with factual errors and lesser mental lapses, the president redeemed himself with a single one-liner in the second debate...
Faced with a fourth down deep in his own territory and trying to protect an 11-point lead with seven minutes left in the game, a lesser man would have punted and bet on his defense...