Word: self
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Instead, it became clear that COCA was, frankly, engaged in spreading specious and patently false propaganda. Don't be misled by its use of words like "self-determination"--COCA members are interested in no such thing...
...have not convinced you. You remain in Cambridge, wallowing in problem sets and self-pity...
...indicates that these stereotypes are no longer caricatures but facts. For the reader, the numbers themselves rendered the caricatures real and the houses obvious. Dean Jewett's omission of house identities is a fleeting salve on the painful reality which his own results have made plain. This method is self-defeating. Craig Katz '91 Steven Kawut...
...really like the lectures," I heard one student say. "They make me feel guilty." Lectures do seem designed to produce guilt. This sense of guilt is not productive or constructive, the kind that sparks a re-examination of societal structures and behavior. This guilt is self-complacent, rooted in the fact that we Harvard students were born privileged and "those people" weren't. And that's as far as social reflection goes...
...McBride, senior vice president of Common Cause, the self-proclaimed public interest organization, hailed the action as "moving toward a time when we will have government fully compensated by the public, and not by special interest influence money...