Word: stems
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Some of the passion bubbling unevenly in Cantor's style must stem from his experiences at Harvard in the late 1960's, when students occupied buildings and protests kindled campuses the country over. His reaction to the riots and counter-riots of his undergraduate years carries through to the related phenomenon of terrorism--exemplified, for Cantor, by the kidnapping of Patty Hearst. He applies the Nietzchean construct of a "theater of sacrifice," a drama enacted by a small group of performers for the edification--or manipulation--of a mass audience. A related essay on Hamlet expands the idea of "history...
Packer's charges stem from December 12 incident at the prospect St. Merit gas station, where he, his brother and a friend watched Cambridge police officers arrest a cabby, he said in an interview Tuesday...
...Harvard officials who planned MATEP without anticipating community concern left the University long ago, asked to find other employment. So perhaps the MATEP mess and Harvard's insensitivity in the past should not fall on today's administrators. But any future hassles and delays will stem from a lack of action and concerns on the part of today's Harvard...
...Interview yesterday, Lipkin said that problems between students, and their gay teachers stem from the fact that "adolescents are sometimes very confused about sexuality...
...inadequacies of the President's approach stem from his failure to recognize the historical roots of the Caribbean basin's economic distress. The nations of Central America and the West Indies are suffering from a legacy of colonial exploitation that has left most dependent on a single crop--sugar--which they compete against each other to sell to the U.S. These nations lack any substantial industrial infrastructure and are net importers of food because so much of their land is either eroded or under export crops...