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...other foreigners could be flown out. It was repaired, but the Pakistanis changed their mind and refused to allow the U.N.'s evacuation aircraft to land at Dacca, leaving U.N. personnel trapped as potential hostages. The International Red Cross declared Dacca's Intercontinental Hotel and nearby Holy Family Hospital "neutral zones" to receive wounded and provide a haven for foreigners...
...expression on screen, the "ariel quality of some free agent." Bob is "a cool boy, for whom cool is an ethic. He's damned if he's going to say he misses anyone or is hurt by his girl sleeping with someone else." He is meant to be "morally neutral:" someone who has no wish to do evil, but who, "being a sort of mutant," does not recognize his own cruelty. This mutant character is further enhanced by his bi-nationality--American and English--as well as his bi-sexuality...
...atmosphere of that fall, the Faculty debated whether to join the Project on an institutional basis while radical pickets, petitions, and demonstrations attacked it as a tool of U.S. government hegemony at home and abroad. While radicals attacked it as counter-revolutionary in intent, liberals accepted it as "value-neutral" basic research but questioned the ethical implications of DOD funding...
...ironic that while the Project's methodological research is more useful to the DOD than specific counter-insurgency studies would have been, the "value-neutral" nature of this research protects the Project from becoming a political target again. There is not much danger of renewed political controversy arising around it, for it has quite effectively slipped from public view. But for those who remember the Project, "academic freedom" is a powerful justification for its existence. An increasing number of people here, it seems, find the abstract principle of academic freedom more important than the predictable misuse of "value-neutral" research
...children's education rather than the adult education he based his book on. Harvey Cox's move from a theology of technological salvation to a theology of people's religion has in significant part been due to Paolo Freire's influence. Because there is no such thing as a neutral educational process, the educational methodology and theory we choose for ourselves, others, and out society largely determine the reality we live, Paolo Freire's book has made a valuable contribution to the liberation of that pedagogy...