Word: suggest
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...American life could tell Mansfield that Blacks have never lacked the will--yes, that rugged individualistic will that New Right analysts cherish so much--or the institutional knowledge required to become citizens at parity with American citizenship standards, and it is insulting and just plain ignorant of Mansfield to suggest otherwise What Black Americans have tacked in their tortuous citizenship quest is the freedom to pursue it--freedom from vulgar and degrading racist values like those implied in Mansfield and Charles Murray's writings, freedom from a century of authoritarian practices, especially in the South, where over 70 percent...
...point here is not to second-guest the Class of 1970, but to suggest the ways in which Harvard works to shut us from responsibility for our politics. This trend cuts both ways. The little Podhoretz's in Eliot House today telling us to protect our "interests" in Central America would be singing a different tune were they getting draft notices in the mail next week rather than invitations to work for Morgan Stanley. Happily we don't have to make the life and death choices Fallows had to make, but indications are that we still haven't learned...
...would be disingenuous to suggest that leftists are alone responsible for this kind of intolerance--reactionaries are no strangers to hypocrisy--but the point has special significance for liberals. Much of the liberalism Harvard says it stands for, after all, has to do with process, with fair play and tolerance for all views, a process which is tacitly subverted by the attitudes cultivated around campus. And this is the worst of all the results of the insularity bred by this University...
...most effective" reforms that a cap be placed on the amount of money that can be awarded to injured parties. Another recommendation is the use of pretrial review. Wisconsin, Louisiana and Indiana, for example, already have panels of medical professionals who review suits before cases go to trial; they suggest a settlement if the case has merit or brand it without merit if it does...
...Others suggest that Jim Baker made his record with patience, by knowing when to lie back and wait. Your reputation goes the opposite way: you're known ! as someone who charges ahead...