Word: staked
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...must not let the issues at stake be obscured by Dershowitz's implications about feminist activists who work within the legal system. Creating villians out of those who take the pornography issue very personally is misguided, serving only to heighten the feelings of antagonism on both sides. Ill-considered name-calling has no place in the responsible discussion of serious issues. J. Marshall Thomsen...
...time--was necessary for the survival and greatness of your nation. But as I have said, when people try to approach these questions with drivel about aesthetics and humanitarianism and so on, really, only one answer is possible: when the destiny and existence of a people are at stake, all obligation toward beauty ceases...
...progressive students are struggling with Harvard to ensure the rights of female, gay and Third World people, the majority of Harvard students do nothing. Well, for all of the do-nothings out there, the politically active women, gay and Third World students are not oversensitive. Our lives are at stake. In the space of five minutes, I witnessed an attempted gay bashing and an assault on a Black student. Don't tell me that our fears are not well-founded. All white liberal students who claim they support our struggle who did not attend G.L.A.D. day, who will not help...
...serious people differ, it is an illusion to think that you can go through four years of an Administration like a college debating society. At some point the President has to choose which philosophy he wants to pursue if he wants to stake a claim to leadership. If there are philosophical disagreements, somebody has a problem of principle. The person who has a problem with principle ought to leave. On the other hand, if there is an agreement on principle, your disagreements are tactical and therefore soluble. This Administration has no coherent philosophy. If in the fourth year...
...case of Mr. Arnold Harberger and of his proposed dual appointment as professor of Economics and Director of HIID continues to confuse even after Mr. Harberger's refusal of Harvard's offer. The issues at stake are indeed central to academic freedom at the University, but our President has not dealt with them adequately in his recent open letter...