Word: role
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...wake of the strike, the Harvard Union of Clerical and Technical Workers (HUCTW), in support of the Pittston union, have called on Stone and Harvard to take an active role in resolving the conflict. HUCTW has held two rallies at Harvard in support of their position...
Last year's council term ended with a tumultuous debate about the role of the Reserve Officers Training Corps (ROTC) on campus. Also last spring, the council lost several thousand dollars when it sponsored a poorly attended concert by folk singer Suzanne Vega...
Funny? Maybe. But not unexpected. By now, even I understand the role of guanxi in China. I only wonder how the whole system works nearer the throne...
...Deng's early military career, but even those who attend -- and most of the theaters are half empty -- talk through the movie or read. At work, employees protest by increasing their sick leave and slowing their production. At school, the results of an essay competition glorifying the army's role in Tiananmen are supposed to have been made public weeks ago. Perhaps too many entries reflect the view of an eleven-year-old girl whose grandparents I meet. Her short, three-page paper, reflecting the unpopularity of China's conservative Premier, has Li Peng resigning because he is "too stinking...
What does this have to do with the average Harvard undergraduate? Practically nothing--and that's the problem with Gitell's prescriptions. Gitell compares the University's potential role in the War on Drugs with its cooperation in World War Two, but a better analogy might be Vietnam, another conflict directed by Harvard's "best and brightest." This is another war America can't win, but at least this time Harvard's faculty are a little more cautious about the prospects for victory...