Word: pasts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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REFERRING to intifada statistics for shock value, out of historical context, would be irresponsible--if only the context were different. In the past, Israeli Jews might have been able to justify the occupation by referring to Palestinian refusal to accept a partition of Palestine and to Israeli military vulnerability. But we can no longer fixate upon the past by refusing to acknowledge a new historical reality, one in which the Palestinians are willing to live in a state alongside Israel and Israel can negotiate from a position of power. The Palestinian National Council has declared the former; numerous Israeli military...
Given the tragedy which marked most of these poets' brief lives, it is hard to imagine them as role models. But for the latest generation of Harvard poets--who have started their writing careers in the past decade--those prominent writers from the 1940s to the '60s have provided them with a sense of from and style which they say was invaluable to their artistic development...
...book, The Burden of the Past, Porter University Professor Emeritus W.J. Bate '39 writes: "In this dilemma, the arts mirror the greatest single cultural problem we face, assuming that we physically survive: that is, how to use the heritage, when we know and admire so much about it, how to grow by means of it, how to acquire our own 'identities,' how to be ourselves...
Covering the University's finances through June 30, 1989, the report noted a $320 million jump in Harvard's endowment this past year, from about $4.2 billion to a record high of almost $4.5 billion...
...bulk of the 88-page report concentrated on the details of Harvard's investments and fundraising efforts over the past year...