Word: nationalism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Data from other colleges and universities around the nation suggests that the relatively low percentage of women in Government in part is due to Harvard College's imbalanced gender distribution...
...during the last two and a half months, Bush has not fulfilled his duties as the nation's top policy-maker. Instead of offering a broad platform, or even urging specific legislation, Bush has limited himself to managerial jobs, reacting to specific problems but rarely taking the initiative...
Consider, too, Bush's decisions surrounding the import of automatic weapons. Again, drug shootings had become a major public issue, with Washington--Bush's place of residence--making headlines as the nation's murder capital. Bush balked on using the issue as an opportunity to make a public stand, and only issued his mediocre response--a temporary ban on some automatic weapons after considerable public uproar...
...such a pattern is not in the best interests of the nation. The president much be more than just a city manager who fixes problems as they come along and smiles nicely for the cameras...
Another reason has something to do with the perception of college athletics. While the nation is questioning whether the NCAA and scholarship schools emphasize sports over academics, non-scholarship Harvard won a major national championship. The NCAA should spend its time publicizing what a group of student-athletes did one Saturday night in April. Maybe that would help bring back the Collegiate in the National Collegiate Athletic Association...