Word: reading
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...might also suggest that perhaps Mr. Orenstein, rather than myself, is the one who is in need of "a course in representative democracy." In such a course he might someday stumble across Alexis de Tocqueville's Democracy in America and read the chapter entitled "What Tempers the Tyranny of the Majority of the United States." Should Mr. Orenstein attend a class to discuss this reading, he may begin to understand that one of the most immoral mistakes a legislator can ever make is to yield to popular passions on issues of prejudice or discrimination. To do so according to Tocqueville...
...other morning, I woke up and, while rubbing the sleep from my eyes, grabbed my faithful issue of The Crimson. As I glanced over the page, searching for anything interesting, I read the headline, "Group Takes Aim At Fly Club." I couldn't believe it. There is now, as we speak, a student group with the specific intent of attacking final clubs. I can't believe the issue has gone this...
...which appeared on page three analysed by different catagories the vote on whether to endorse a complaint against a final club. The council did not approve the measure. The final section of the table--which gave a breakdown of how the 57 men on the council voted--should have read as follows: Yes: 22; No: 27; Absent: 7; Abstain...
...prepared himself one year ago for the opening speech of his presidential campaign, Michael Dukakis was exasperated. In the Boston video studio, his handlers pushed at him. "Let some feeling out, Michael, please," the speech coach urged. Deliberately, the candidate read on. After a while the coach tried a different approach. "Get mad," she said. "Can't you get mad?" Finally Dukakis had had enough. The voters, he declared, would have to take him as he is. "Look, I'm not Mario," he said defensively, referring to New York's demonstrative Governor Cuomo. "This just...
...days later the so-called Organization of the Oppressed on Earth delivered to a Western news agency a statement typed in Arabic declaring its responsibility for the abduction. Enclosed were snapshots of two of Higgins' identity cards. The statement read: "We have caught the throat of the American serpent, criminal agent of the satanic CIA and one of the biggest spies, sowing daily terror in our land." Mindful that an earlier hostage, CIA Station Chief William Buckley, had been tortured to death by his abductors, the State Department denied any links between the kidnaped colonel and the U.S. intelligence services...