Word: statement
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...mind. But ideally, there should be no trade-off between cultural background and independent thinking. The ideas expressed in the editorial, properly distorted, have been used to silence outside criticism and impose one culture's norms on others under the guise of universal logic. Knowing that this statement will annoy Kovacevich, I must say that, as an international student, I have often felt this pressure...
...mail message said that by withdrawing support from the panel discussion, BGLTSA was not asserting a negative statement on gay conservatism or the discussion itself, but that it "did not feel comfortable signing onto a panel with Professor Harvey Mansfield...
...deny the validity of "Western civilization and popular culture," but to ask why women and sexual minorities have been excluded from it. Capitalism and the Enlightenment have made women, gay men and lesbians more visible, but they have not allowed them to speak fully. And as Ambinder's statement that "Harvard needs fewer English Ph.D.'s who study sex and gender" implies, maybe they still do not have that right...
...deny the validity of "Western civilization and popular culture," but to ask why women and sexual minorities have been excluded from it. Capitalism and the Enlightenment have made women, gay men and lesbians more visible, but they have not allowed them to speak fully. And as Ambinder's statement that "Harvard needs fewer English Ph.D.'s who study sex and gender" implies, maybe they still do not have that right. JENNIFER E. MOON'99 March...
Tellingly, there was no such explicit statement forthcoming from the White House last week. "We have our own national means of gathering information," White House spokesman David Leavy said. "I'm just not going to get into the details of our intelligence operation." U.S. officials acknowledge that nonanswers like that will make it tougher to get the world community to sign up for such multilateral arms-control regimes in the future...