Word: longer
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Liberal ideology is full of these kinds of buzz topics--topics about which feeling is so strong and unequivocal that two-sided discussion becomes impossible. Rape is one such topic. Any kind of racial bigotry is another. At the most basic level, of course, these issues are no longer up for discussion. For the most part, people are not debating the question of whether rape is a severe crime or of whether racism is wrong and destructive. These are no longer liberal causes and it would be an undeserved insult to conservatism to suggest that they are. But there...
...defense also tightened up, allowing just 24 shots against an excellent Engineer offense on Friday and 30 against Union. Most Skating Dutchmen shots came either on the power play or after the outcome was no longer in doubt...
...freshmen made big contributions at longer distances. In their first collegiate performances, Christopher Antunes and John Traugott shined for Harvard in the middle-distance events. Antunes finished first in the 800-meter run with a time of 1:58.3, and Traugott won the 1000-meter...
...expectations are unreasonable-if there can no longer be Big Men or Women On Campus-then surely those seeking leadership should somehow compensate for their lack of pre-existing popular support. They should possess the necessary personal attributes to create such support during the brief duration of the council campaign. As the situation currently stands, and has often stood in the past, those few students who vote in two weeks will merely be expressing a lukewarm preference for one candidate over the others, and not an impassioned advocacy. Even if there were serious issues at stake--which admittedly there...
...council is a somewhat pathetic organization that may not inspire the interest of the best people on this campus. Or, there may no longer be any people deserving of campus-wide leadership. Perhaps all that remain are local deities. Either way, this year's race for council president is shaping up to be yet another embarrassment to the notion of student government at Harvard, and more sadly, a sign that the purported greatness of Harvard undergraduates may be on the wane...