Word: musts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...part of a fundamental denial of Palestinian national rights. By condemning Israeli suppression of the intifada, we are not ignoring a "larger context" of justified occupation, but responding indirectly to the new context: protesting Israeli political intractability by drawing attention to the horrific results it produces daily. We must invoke intifada statistics as an act of political protest...
...addressing the real issue: the dismal state of social life at Harvard. While the staff more than adequately discusses the problems associated with the new groups, it almost completely ignores the fact that these new organizations are mere symptoms of a larger problem that both students and the administration must face. To be critical is fine. But to be critical without making positive suggestions for constructive change is counterproductive. Here are three positive suggestions which the staff could have made to these groups...
...students who run these groups have no control over the larger direction of the organization--such as whether to admit women--but Harvard has much less control over the groups in question. Harvard's policy may be against discrimination, but if the national organization's is not, the group must be loyal to the latter or risk losing its affiliation...
...United States should never have to be in a position of global dominance again, but, by the same token, America's citizens should not allow the nation to sink into a condition where it must depend on other nations for its economic solvency...
America has fought a long and hard war for global democracy since the days of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt '04. Now the nation must turn inward and correct some of the many problems that threaten to destroy what we have fought to preserve...