Word: progressiveness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...MASON & DIXON (Henry Holt) Thomas Pynchon's vast novel retraces the progress of the men who drew the line between the colonies of Pennsylvania and Maryland. For all its Pynchonesque tomfooleries--a talking dog, a four-ton cheese--the tale is somber, elegiac. Mason and Dixon come to realize that their triumph means an end to the wilderness, the imposition of order on "the realm of the Sacred...
...tells me, "my position has become weaker, because there's been no development, no progress. In spite of my open approach, of maximum concessions, the Chinese position becomes even harder and harder." Last year all photographs of the exiled leader were banned in Tibet, and monks and nuns continue to be imprisoned and tortured at will, in what the International Commission of Jurists long ago called a policy of "genocide." Yet, he argues, all but banging his fist on the arm of his chair, "to isolate China is totally wrong. China needs the outside world, and the outside world needs...
...President Clinton's refusal to set a new deadline -- leaving open even the possibility that the U.S. commitment would outlast his time in office -- was probably wise; progress in the region, diplomats say, is still measured in inches. The key to defeating the enemies of peace in Bosnia may be to outlast them...
These fallacies include the notion that the council cannot make progress on an issue as knotty as Faculty diversity; that representing the student voice on ideological matters saps up all the time and energy from the fight for student services; that the world is not watching what Harvard's student government says--and does not say. All these charges were taken up, if not so effectively articulated, by the progressive candidates in last week's race. Yet the progressives let one Stewart-Cohen fallacy slip by: that the student body, divided on ostensibly political issues, is united behind student services...
Faculty diversity, meanwhile, has been deemed a controversial political issue better handled by student groups. Stewart and Cohen plan instead to fight for causes on which they believe they can make more progress. But Faculty diversity is not a political concern supported by a narrow segment of the student body; it is about undergraduate education and the College experience in the most direct sense. And it is an issue about which many of us care deeply. Indeed, in a Crimson survey on race published last week, a vast 72 percent of the student body said the College "needs more" minority...