Word: roles
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Overseers say they formed the committee not because of dissatisfaction with election procedures but because of concern that too few overseers were on hand to staff certain technical visiting committees. These committees, which in the Pusey years played a comparatively minor, almost perfunctory role by many accounts, have experienced a remarkable resurgence under President...
...must be repeated again and again that in the system of checks and balances devised by the Founding Fathers "the people" ultimately are sovereign. Elected officials rule at their pleasure and on their behalf. It was correctly assumed that the people would play a greater, if less explicit role in the governing of their lives than any of the three branches of government that magnificent document created. It was that obligation Americans neglected after they twice elected Ronald Reagan to the presidency. If any good is to come out of the whole Reagan-Iran-contra mess, it will...
Moreover, I did not perceive my role--or the role of any other Black member of the Class of 1987--as being that of a pioneer for the race, scouting and forging ahead into uncharted social territory as did the members of a previous generation. I had what probably were typical aspirations for an Adams House resident: to write for a publication or two, to avoid science courses, and to cultivate that sought-after air of decadence and a skill at strategic snideness...
Another problem has been the periodic emergence of bitter dialogue between Black student groups and the administration over the role of minority-oriented activities. Among other things, Black organizations have repeatedly called for a minority student center of the sort found at the other Ivy League institutions. "Separatism"--a term that conjures up images of the Black anger and militancy of the late '60s and early '70s--has been the pejorative buzzword associated with efforts to develop an insular Black community at Harvard. Though a critical percentage of Black students likely have never thought about a student center, the issue...
Scholars of United States international relations hail the plan, and its author, for exhibiting a sense of idealism that was tempered with shrewd diplomacy. They say that the Marshall Plan confirmed that the victorious American government would be committed to pursuing the role of a leader among nations...