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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...only justified when legal avenues of protest and dialogue have been exhausted; in such circumstances it becomes the only means for those without power to draw attention to their cause and to bring pressure on those in authority. Demonstrators need not only violate unjust laws. Protesters frequently violate minor and irrelevant statutes--by trespassing, for example, at the Pentagon or the South African Embassy or the federal building in Boston--in order to dramatize the spectacle of dissenters being arrested by those determined to maintain an immoral policy...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Playing by the Rules | 11/25/1986 | See Source »

Harvard had to play without first-line center Allen Bourbeau for most of the final period. Bourbeau spent eight minutes in the penalty box in the third period for four minor penalties incurred during a brawl...

Author: By Mark Brazaitis, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Icemen Glide By Princeton, 6-2 | 11/22/1986 | See Source »

Perhaps the following formula will be suitable. We will allow a few limited agreements for prepublication review, but only where the claim seems (1) to further a legitimate interest of the reviewer, and (2) to involve minor aspects of the text that do not interfere with the right of the authors to present their opinions and interpretations or to include material facts that they were entitled to present. To put it more generally, we see nothing wrong with allowing someone else to review a draft and edit it for matters of legitimate concern to the reviewer, if these matters...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Bok Letter | 11/21/1986 | See Source »

...emerges from this essay is that our current rules relating to secrecy in research do not seem either adequately framed or sufficiently understood within this community to deal satisfactorily with the kinds of issues we have been discussing. By themselves, of course, the situations we have analyzed may seem minor. Probably, only a few faculty members will ever encounter such problems in their own work. Still, the principles at stake are important to a community of scholars, and the kinds of questions we have examined are likely to increase in number and complexity as the importance of research to government...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Bok Letter | 11/21/1986 | See Source »

...developers expect this "minor logistical problem to be cleared up in a month," said H.J. Davis Vice President Jonathan D. Katz...

Author: By Elsa C. Arnett, | Title: $50M East Cambridge Complex Gets Start | 11/18/1986 | See Source »

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