Word: roles
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When the Harvard faculty voted 385-25 to kick ROTC off campus in 1969, Psychology Professor Jerome S. Bruner noted that "times have changed, and the role of the military in the university is in need of reexamination." The intent of the students taking over Mass Hall that year was to force this reexamination...
THERNSTROM may have been thoughtless, careless, or foolish; he was not racially insensitive. Any treatment of racial or ethnic groups is difficult and awkward by nature because by setting a group apart one takes on the role of observer and judge. This role is not assumed by choice but prescribed by the subject matter. Ethnicity is a difficult subject to treat because people are afraid to confront the basic fact that people are different. Some of them are more advantaged than others by whatever accidents of circumstance place their ethnic group in their socioeconomic context. Any class on immigration...
Tolk arranged the proposal during latersession with Krok Musical Director Mischa A. Frusztajer '89 at the Krokodiloes' pre-concert retreat in Vermont. "It's traditionally the director's role to sing 'marry me' to someone in the audience during out theme song. I talked to Mischa and arranged the switch," Tolk said...
...seamy dealings. Nonetheless, top officials in the State and Defense departments and the CIA vigorously supported him, citing his cooperation with U.S. intelligence agencies and willingness to let the U.S. military operate broadly in Panama. Even as the Administration finally took action, new charges suggested that Noriega played a role in the Iran-contra arms deal as well. Jose Blandon, until recently Panama's consul general in New York City and a close political adviser to Noriega, disclosed that the general had conspired with Lieut. Colonel Oliver North, the former National Security Council aide, to dispatch, then intercept, a shipment...
...shoot them. But I myself can't beat them. For the first time in my life I give an order, and then I turn my back so I won't see it done." What the army is doing in the territories, says the officer, a fighter in the unaccustomed role of occupier, "is against everything I believe in." That is a dilemma the entire nation must face...