Word: offenders
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...freedom of speech on campus. Bus administrators, organizations and students must realize that to maintain Harvard as a center of learning and intellectual discourse we must not do so--so long as their speech doesn't present a clear and present danger to people's safety. Some speakers will offend and hurt us, but we must speak out against them, not silence them...
...eager to offend General Powell, but I am less willing to give offense to gay and lesbian colleagues and gay and lesbian students," he said...
...self-important and reluctant to make changes that might require the smallest amount of political courage. They need a combination of persistent prodding and frequent flattery or they lose their enthusiasm for action. Lacking the strong Democratic majorities in both houses that LBJ enjoyed, Clinton can't afford to offend many legislators from either party. So his partisan approach to his $16 billion budget stimulus was a stupid political move, and the Republican filibuster that killed it was a predictable slap in the face to a politician who should have known better. Similarly, Clinton should have expected Sam Nunn...
...unfunniness alone does not offend me, nor do poor drawing skills. In the past, I have been known to read both Dim Wits and Jody without a word of complaint. But when a generally poor quality of cartoon is combined with one infantile poke at women after another, then I begin to feel that something should be said...
...course Harvard has no obligation--moral or otherwise--to invite a speaker whose views are consistent with University policy. Additionally, it is probably impossible to find a speaker whose opinions do not offend some part of the Harvard community. Legitimate differences in opinion should not prevent a person from speaking at Commencement...