Word: rethink
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...would not use its nuclear arms to defend the Continent, for fear of provoking a Soviet counterattack against American cities. Last week, after 18 months of research, 27 prominent U.S. and European defense specialists issued the 260-page Report of the European Security Study, which attempts to rethink NATO strategy in the light of the Soviet buildup.* Their conclusion: the alliance must increase both the quality and the quantity of its conventional forces in Europe...
...Soviet military assistance to Syria is a treaty of "friendship and cooperation" that was signed by Assad and former Soviet Leader Leonid Brezhnev in Moscow in 1980. The pact was drawn up at a time when Syria's increasing isolation from other Arab countries was causing Assad to rethink a foreign policy that has been described as "acrobatic nonalignment." But even while courting Moscow's increased attentions, Assad has never been more than a reluctant Soviet suitor. For two years after the treaty's signing, Assad mysteriously failed to reappoint a Syrian Ambassador to Moscow. Following Israel...
...office after the class, Bergvall reflects on her experiences at the school. "The first year is hell," she says. It is "designed to make you really rethink your commitment," and to force you to immerse yourself in the mindset of your chosen field. After the initial strain, however, students begin to feel more comfortable with their department and the academic routine...
...whole. Eliminating mandatory retirement would place an unendurable burden on the system of lifetime tenure for professors so essential to academic freedom. It would choke off opportunities for younger scholars to move ahead, impair universities' ability to carry out affirmative action in hiring, and probably force institutions to rethink the tenure process. In short, the idea that professors could hang on indefinitely would damage the lifeline through which the all-important scholarship and teaching of the nation is consistently revitalized...
...sure there are those who would argue that Harvard is hardly responsible for the treatment which we have received. I would, however, rather question that. A university is responsible for educating. And if tolerance, respect, and simple good comportment are no longer parts of education, then we should perhaps rethink the entire process. We, as Greek Orthodox, represent one-fifth of the world's some billion Christians, scattered as we are throughout Eastern Europe, the Levant, Greece, Western Europe, and the Americas (with a population of about four million in the latter). Would it not behoove a university to teach...