Word: understanding
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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That it why it is so easy to understand why the people who run Harvard run it the way they do--because it is really running them. When Harvard bleeds its unions at the bargaining table, when it spreads out into the city and evicts tenants along the way, when it tells its students they will have only the tiniest say in forming a new curriculum, and no say at all in deciding whether to get rid of certain lucrative stocks or a well-endowed name on its new library, there is always a good reason for doing so. There...
...ALSO TOO EASY to resign yourself to sadness. It is one thing to understand why the men who run Harvard behave as they do; it is altogether a different thing to condone it. It is wrong to believe that Derek Bok is evil, but it is just as wrong to believe that he is not responsible, for his actions. Bureaucrats, administrators and scholars may spend their lives pretending that they are not human, that their august positions relieve them of the need to subscribe to common human virtues--but in 30 years, when they will have grown old and face...
...course, we understand that our system is very conservative. It is a system with great differences in position--a party elite--but it presents the front of a monolith. Our society, the way it is today, could not evolve in a good direction; but revolution would be more tragic than the state we have today...
...think there is no liberal tradition. For 60 years our country has been a totalitarian government. Our tradition is not liberalism but totalitarianism. Some people understand the need [for liberalism], but the whole system is so conservative, there is little opportunity for change...
Today, they cannot return to the Crimea. We don't understand why the Soviets have such a policy. It is discriminative and hundreds of people have joined the great struggle. One man had a cannister of oil and he burned himself. When he was brought to the hospital, he said everyone must do this, and died. His name was Usmanov. Some thousands of Crimeans came to Crimea to attend his funeral and the officials could not disperse them. It was a great demonstration...