Word: notionalism
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...technology. They explore the everyday life of ordinary people and the tides of change that sweep through whole populations. When they write about individual historical actors, the emphasis tends to be on psychology. Kings and Queens, Presidents and Prime Ministers may affect events at the margins, but the notion that history happens because someone decided it should happen is regarded as unenlightening if not simply wrong...
...catapulted himself onto Ginsberg’s list of all-time favorite people. The divestment movement at Harvard (it is also a national academic movement) is an effort by a variety of faculty members to encourage the University to withdraw investments from companies that do business with Israel. Their notion is that Israel is run by an oppressive military regime whose human rights violations regarding Palestinians have become intolerable and must be stopped through sanctions. On some level, I fail to see how Israel’s human rights record is worse than a large number of other Middle-Eastern...
This was a notion trumpeted by other Administration officials as well, but what they and Bush had in mind was encouraging senior leaders of the Iraqi army or Baath Party to revolt. "We didn't expect a general public uprising," says a former Bush aide...
...thought about the issue during the past few weeks, especially after the March 22 rally in Harvard Yard, where this had been mentioned by several speakers, but The Crimson’s article gave concrete dollar figures to the abstract notion of war profiteering. This is worth quoting: “With nearly half a percent of its endowment invested in 11 of the government’s 15 top defense contractors, the war with Iraq may have already made Harvard as much as $4.5 million.” And what is even more troubling is that these figures...
Maureen E. Mahoney, the attorney for University of Michigan Law School, and John Payton, the attorney for Michigan’s undergraduate program, rejected the notion of the school’s policies as quotas, and instead spent the majority of their arguments describing the need for racial preferences...