Word: socialism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Horowitz said the New Left "believes you can change social institutions to change people...
...Kahn lashed out the way he did (Letters, Feb. 17). His words may have been particularly abrasive and full of useless generalizations, but are they really any different from the countless letters and articles we read in The Crimson condemning final clubs, blaming them for all manner of social ills? The truth about final clubs is that they are similar to other clubs on campus--the Lampoon, the Kroks, the Black Students Association--where members from different backgrounds come together through common interests, forming life-long friendships in the process. Final clubs in particular are fortunate to have...
Harvard students love to play the blame game. Social life at Harvard less than desirable? Blame final clubs, blame the administration, blame anyone but yourself. An overexaggeration perhaps, but it seems to me that Harvard's social life would improve drastically if its students stopped bickering with each other and worked together to create new social outlets and a better sense of school spirit. Enough is enough. Let's put down our pens and see what we can accomplish. JONATHAN POWERS '00 Feb. 22, 1999 The writer is an officer of the Owl Club...
...appointed to California's Solar Cal Council by Governor Jerry Brown, suddenly found herself without a job when his successor, George Deukmejian, pulled the plug on the agency. So she set up a nonprofit organization called the Local Government Commission to help educate officials on ways to deal with social and environmental problems. "It was clear to me that without mayors and city council managers and supervisors undertaking the lead in making things change, Village Homes could never be duplicated," she says...
...Somehow, Social Security reform doesn't attract the same audience. "This was our national soap opera," says neoconservative pundit Laura Ingraham. "It was our Days of Our Lives." So expect to hear more from people like Geraldo Rivera, host of a nightly CNBC talk show, who bashes Ken Starr the way he used to bash O.J. Simpson. Rivera has fed viewers an all-impeachment diet for months. Asked whether he will ever move on, he responds, "I have just begun the fight. I'm going to be talking about this next week. You have the Linda Tripp grand jury...