Word: nevertheless
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Nevertheless there is much to be said for the skittishness of Harvard's history elders about loading the department with tenured people professing current, up-to-date, up-to-the-minute subjects. Surely, above all others, history departments have vocational cause to hesitate to overstock themselves with professors on tenure providing instruction in subjects, chic and modish today, but of slender interest tomorrow, who, given the rules of tenure, alas! cannot be remaindered at half price. Historians require that the subject of a course pass the test of time, and if they do not, they should. There is something perhaps...
ACLU/CLUM has also adopted a clear policy against "the heckler's veto." While heckling or mild interruption of a speaker is a form of expression entitled to First Amendment protection, even if offensive or obnoxious, nevertheless, in an extreme form "conduct that effectively prevents the speaker from speaking or the audience from hearing cannot be classified as protected speech." It is the equivalent of "acts of physical force" excercized against the speaker. "The speaker is as entitled to protection from this form of interference as from any other physical obstruction...
...Hesburgh vision and trumpet have reached far beyond South Bend. He has always insisted that "my purpose is to produce educated Christians. I don't want to be Harvard, I want to be the greatest Catholic university in the world." Nevertheless, last fall he acted as point man for 111 Catholic college presidents who rebutted a Vatican schema for greater control over the appointment of theology professors at Catholic schools. Their objection was that such control could infringe academic freedom. "The church proclaims the word of God loud and clear without any doubts," says Hesburgh, whereas the "university...
...other hand, every city has its own annoyances as well. Cities are by nature crowded, polluted, and crime-ridden, and inhabitants are expected to shell out exorbitant rents to live there. Nevertheless, most jobs are to be found in the city, so the prospective employee must try to make the best of it. To help you out, I have prepared an updated 1987 edition of the Michelin/Rutger Fury Guide to Metropolitan Living...
...alliance's strategic doctrine of "flexible response," which calls for the use of INF and battlefield nuclear arms if NATO armies are threatened with defeat by superior East bloc conventional forces. Allied governments welcomed the U.S. missiles as clear symbols of America's continued commitment to Europe's defense. Nevertheless, NATO stuck to its original offer: if the Soviet SS-20s targeted on Europe were ever removed, the new NATO missiles would...