Word: nationalism
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...Korea have always been more than just rich people. Inside their sprawling conglomerates, they are revered like demigods, their every utterance heeded as law. In the country at large, these titans of industry, though often distrusted, are lauded as the men who transformed an impoverished backwater into a modern nation with the world's 13th largest economy. This week, however, one of the most powerful fell from his pedestal. Lee Kun Hee, 66, the chairman of Samsung Electronics, shocked South Korea by resigning after being indicted for tax evasion and breach of trust...
Wright's critics have confused nationalism with patriotism. Nationalism is the uncritical support of one's country regardless of its moral or political bearing. Patriotism is the affirmation of one's country in light of its best values, including the attempt to correct it when it's in error. Wright's words are the tough love of a war-tested patriot speaking his mind--one of the great virtues of our democracy. The most patriotic thing his nation can do now is extend to him the same right for which he was willing...
...backward policy is eventually ended in the name of social progressivism, we hope that Harvard’s central administration will welcome ROTC back onto our campus in the name of renewed social and ideological progressivism. These are uncertain times in which we as a college and as a nation ought to be banding together. When divisive policies such as “Don’t Ask Don’t Tell” come to an end, we will be able to properly honor the service of our military to the fullest extent...
...Appleby. HHI’s Humanitarian Studies Initiative is a seven-year old program that attempts to provide students with hands-on experience that emphasizes the policies that HSPH has developed, according to a press release. “Our program is one of four or five in the nation that trains people in service delivery,” said HHI Director of External Affairs Erin E. Lyons. The program places a “unique emphasis on population and international health.” Interest in the Humanitarian Studies Initiative has already expanded significantly. Last year, Appleby said, there...
...movement fully embraces the moral acceptability of abortion as it must, then it follows that there should be nothing wrong with women choosing to use the procedure as birth control. With this logic, there should be no objections against the Yale senior, Aliza Shvarts, for her art exhibition reported nation-wide last week, which may have included footage of multiple artificially induced abortions. If one argues that abortion should be safe and legal, then he cannot, in the same breath, insist that he hopes abortion is also rare...