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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...injunction. At this fall's Radcliffe Convocation, I once again was lectured on the values of experimentation, when Gish Jen '77 reminded the audience of the magic of flexibility, the excitement of explotation. This time, I heeded these words not for their seeming platitude, but instead for their sudden truth, I am nearing the end of my four years, yet am still pursuing many of the same goals which I brought with me into Harvard Yard that first September afternoon...

Author: By Megan L. Peimer, | Title: The Security to Explore | 9/25/1996 | See Source »

...Tell the truth! Five hundred thousand Iraqi children have died of starvation and disease in the U.S. embargo against Iraq...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: U.S. Hypocrisy | 9/24/1996 | See Source »

Attempts to overdramatize McNamara and his times are unnecessary. Shattering events speak for themselves, as the witness literature of the 20th century reminds us again and again. But even though The Living and the Dead fails to levitate McNamara and his Pentagon, it touches a heavy truth: Americans did not have to die in Vietnam. The U.S. lost the war, and today the region is overrun by venture capitalists...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BOOKS: THE MAN WE LOVE TO HATE | 9/23/1996 | See Source »

...come from a divine source and to be contained in sacred scriptures. Only a select few, it was thought, could interpret these works correctly, faithful to the divine will. In the great book-religions, these great books specifically, and language more generally, partook of the sacred; the path to truth and to divinity passed through particular men, the initiates...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Choi's Ideas on Education Are Pre-Industrial | 9/20/1996 | See Source »

Similarly, Choi's liberal education would "perfect the few best souls through intense study of the few great books." Such a soul "will not need others to correct or complement him.... He will not hold opinions but know truth." Furthermore, since "most of us see truth and goodness too dimly to rely wisely on our own judgment...we must learn to see from those who saw clearly." And where is this font of knowledge? In "the exceedingly difficult works of Plato and Aristotle...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Choi's Ideas on Education Are Pre-Industrial | 9/20/1996 | See Source »

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