Word: sakes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...fast track. No fast track," until Clinton drew applause with this line: "I think I've earned the right to be heard." Then he asked for mercy. Not so much for him, but for November's Democratic hopefuls. The Labor-Democratic "partnership," Clinton said, must continue for the sake of the rest of Labor's agenda. Courtesy prevailed, and the speech closed to more applause. Al Gore can only hope that spirit of tolerance prevails if his name ends up on the year 2000 primary ballot next to Dick Gephardt...
...their results. Last Thursday an editorial in the New England Journal of Medicine by executive editor Marcia Angell harshly condemned some of these trials for including a placebo group. Angell condemned the use of a placebo group because those women given the placebo were deliberately denied treatment for the sake of an experiment, even though the treatment may have helped them...
...historic Freshman Union, butter patties on the ceiling and all, or to rip it down in the name of progress and the need for more office space? I had, throughout the planning stages and construction of the Barker Center, favored the preservation of the Union for preservation's sake alone, not having ever eaten in the Union but feeling rather that History is History and should be left as is. All of that feeling went out a shiny, clean window when I entered the new building, but my change in perspective got me thinking...
...many would dispute that frequent change on a number of levels is necessary-after all, if nothing ever changed, Harvard would still be lit by candles and attended only by young white men. But the question of changing our physical surroundings is more complex. Change for the sake of change, for the sake of making imagined progress is surely wrong. Witness the apparently imminent destruction of The Tasty, that greasy but truly historical establishment on JFK Street. Do we really need to empty that space in order to fill it with yet another bank, yet another office, or worse still...
...change for the sake of real progress, change for the sake of our faculty and students (i.e., decent offices and classrooms in the Barker Center) is, of course, necessary. So I've come to grips about the English Department's losing Warren House. Construction is ongoing now on that building, and workers are cleaning the bathroom of the fictional bloodstains from Amanda Cross (a.k.a. Carolyn Heilbrun)'s Death in a Tenured Position so that the Women Studies Program will soon have a new old space to call its own, smack dab on top of the scene of the original crime...