Word: sawing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...month of August saw Wuer Kaixi absorbed in a remarkably different activity: taking Harvard's placement exam in the Quantitative Reasoning Requirement...
...possible reason: Attorney General Richard L. Thornburgh has reportedly encouraged the investigation because he saw "waste" at Harvard, where he was head of the Institute of Politics for the year before being named to his Justice Department post...
...year also saw two important challenges to the administration from members of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) as well, revolving around the central administration's refusal to take the Faculty's views into account...
...question of pluralism in another, more violent language. On one March night, two Black students run to catch a University shuttle bus but are pulled off by Cambridge police, searched and left without explanation on the curb. Ask the police why they acted so, and they answer they saw two men running on a street after a nearby convenience store robbery. Granted, they say, the suspect in the robbery was a single white male, but under the mercury lights in the Square perhaps skin color is too deceptive...
That suicidal impulse may have been what inspired his last major political error, declaring war on the U.S. after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. There was no treaty with the Japanese that required him to do so, and Hitler never saw a treaty he couldn't break. It is quite likely that the U.S. would have eventually joined the European war anyway, but it is also possible that if Hitler had professed neutrality, the U.S. war effort would have been turned against Japan. And if Hitler had succeeded in establishing some kind of peace with Britain and the Soviets...