Word: objects
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...writing in response to Susan B. Glasser's "Boys and Sports" (April 16, 1988). I object strongly to the article, which claims that all boys and men in America think and talk only of sports and statistics...
...photographs themselves, which Mr. Schwaber defines as "playing on people's emotions," were all taken from major American newspapers such as The New York Times and The Washington Post. Apparently then, Mr. Schwaber must also object to general American coverage of the Palestinian uprising. This would not be altogether surprising for it seems that Mr. Schwaber objects to any criticism of Israel whatsoever. It is disquieting that Mr. Schwaber finds the use of the pictures inflammatory, but not their content. A photograph of an Israeli soldier attempting to mace an unarmed Palestinian woman presents a far more urgent issue than...
...major zoning plan ordinarily needs a 6-3 majority on the Council to pass, but a landowner of 20 percent or more of the area may object to the plan and require that it receive seven votes to pass. Harvard owns more than 20 percent of the land in the Square and will exercise its right to demand a 7-2 vote for passage, said Associate Vice President for State and Community Affairs Jacqueline O'Neill...
Most lawyers object to pardons before a trial. "To pardon is to forgive," says New York University Law Professor Stephen Gillers. "It's odd to forgive before guilt is established." It has rarely happened. For most of the nation's history, pardons were basically exemptions from some or all punishment after conviction. Even more significantly, any pretrial pardon for Oliver North and his companions would have great practical consequences. It would head off the possibility that both Reagan and George Bush might be called to testify. Some think such a pardon would be an improper short- circuiting of the legal...
...Archie Cox is not impartial in this case," Nesson said in the taped message. "In a very important sense, Archie Cox was the object of it all. He was the symbol. He represented what Harvard stood for, and what this CLS movement attacked...