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While Summers was more outspoken than Faust in calling for an increased role of the military on campus, saying that "degree of cleavage between the military and the academy is very detrimental for both," he also criticized "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" in the harshest of terms, calling it "offensive to human dignity and to principles of nondiscrimination...
...watching a TV broadcast of a press conference with [Mikhail] Gorbachev and I remember seeing her stand up and ask a question,” Jennifer B. Freeman ’83, an HASA member, recalled. “She was very articulate and outspoken from a young...
...Even outspoken local civil rights activists have been reluctant to raise an uproar. Philadelphia's NAACP head J. Whyatt Mondesire, not a man known to be shy about criticizing the city police, publicly dismissed the Rev. Al Sharpton when he called the case "worse than Rodney King" and came to town to visit one of the beaten suspects. "We let him know we didn't particularly like outsiders coming in and making comments about a situation he wasn't aware of," Mondesire told TIME. "But he practices his own brand of headline grabbing. So let him do his own thing...
...witness. Nevertheless, the judge ruled that Hartmann's statements had overstepped the bounds of neutrality required of his official role, a ruling that could limit Hartmann's oversight in other Guantanamo cases as well. The judicial rebuke was a significant embarrassment for the Pentagon and Hartmann personally. The normally outspoken general said he planned to keep doing his job and offered no comment when asked if his career had been damaged or whether he might soon face removal or would voluntarily resign...
...First of all, the causes of the trade disputes then and now are very much alike. In both cases, Americans blamed other countries for problems they created themselves. In the late 1980s, Akio Morita, Sony's flamboyant co-founder, was one of the most outspoken about Japan's economic conflicts with America. He argued that all of the bickering about currency rates and corporate practices were somewhat irrelevant. The U.S. trade deficit, he wrote at the time, was "a result of commercial transactions based on preferences." Translation: Americans simply wanted to buy lots of things from Japan. The problem...