Word: statements
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Jean-Marie Le Pen, leader of the extreme right National Front, won an astonishing 14.4 percent of the vote in the first round. He said in a bitter statement yesterday that the traditional right was "the stupidest right in the world...
...streets to cope with Israeli soldiers," cries of outrage erupted in the audience. When he claimed further that the Jewish concern for women and children is something that "is not known in, maybe, your circles," the comment was hotly denounced by the Palestinians as an "outright racist statement." In the midst of this tinderbox, Koppel handled himself with poise / and scrupulous fairness, trying his best (not always successfully) to cut short rambling speeches and keeping emotions under control by the sheer force of his calming intellect...
...feel strongly about Harvard's immoral investment policies in South Africa, then we should say so and not accept the statement that the senior class gift is apolitical. Warren's announcement that the senior class gift is "apolitical" is too simple a construction of the world. People try to remove many actions from a moral framework by stripping them of their political significance. Unfortunately, the world we live in is fraught with more painful moral dilemmas...
Government officials and opinion leaders played a large role in fanning the flames. For some reason, Navy Secretary Frank Knox said secret agents in Hawaii had effectively helped Japan, though he knew the statement was untrue. A Treasury Department official announced that 20,000 members of the Japanese- American community were "ready for organized action" to cripple the war effort. Earl Warren, then California attorney general, and Columnist Walter Lippmann echoed that theme with some remarkably paranoid reasoning: the lack of sabotage was an eerie sign, indicating that tightly disciplined Japanese Americans must be quietly planning some sort of massive...
...what of all of this? The point remains that giving to the Senior Gift was never a political statement and has not become one with the formation of E4D. This is not a choice between two funds with similar ends and different means. The ends themselves are different, and those seniors who are working on both campaigns recognize that the two are not mutually exclusive. As a Co-Chair of the Class Gift, I encourage all seniors who believe in divestment to donate to E4D. But I also encourage every member of the Class of 1988, regardless of political persuasion...