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...danger of losing our identity, becoming more concerned with Wall Street than our consumers," says Jean-Pierre Subrenat, chairman of the World Perfumery Congress and former head of the American Society of Perfumers. He is worried that industry specialists will lose their jobs and that financial demands will squelch creative freedom...
...open discussion about how the U.S. can best support Israel even if that means sometimes being critical,” said Noah Hertz-Bunzl ’08, a board member of the alliance. “Critics should look toward an open debate and not try to squelch Walt and Mearsheimer because they’re perceived as anti-Semitic...
...third quarter, when Harvard scored back-to-back goals just over a minute apart to shrink the lead to 8-3. Sophomore midfielder Matt Motschwiller scored the second of the two, but Ohio State fired off four straight goals to push the lead back to 12-3 and squelch any ideas of a Crimson comeback. “We battled back in the third quarter, but it was just too slow of a start,” Flood said. Anything Harvard lacked on offense in the early goings was made up for by the Buckeye attack unit. Ohio State kept...
Except for the few unlucky enough to have experienced it, most Harvard students are culturally unprepared to understand violence. The campus attempts to squelch aggression by intellectualizing it: there are entire departments effectively devoted to the study of people killing each other. But there is something fundamental about violence that Historical Study A-12, “Conflict and Cooperation in the Modern World,” doesn’t quite capture. Academia is inherently ill-equipped to deal with the realities of conflict, since it is based on the premise that disputes can be resolved through rational exchange...
Attempts to squelch publication of Spycatcher abroad, however, have not fared so well. In September 1985, the London government filed suit in an Australian court to prevent release of the memoir. So far, the testimony of government witnesses in the case has been embarrassingly inconsistent. British Cabinet Secretary Sir Robert Armstrong has admitted that he was "economical with the truth" on the stand. The defense also noted that British officials allowed Journalist Chapman Pincher to publish a book in 1981 that contained similar material...