Word: undoing
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...until only about 15 years ago the United States practiced its own form of apartheid. The experience of dismantling our home-grown version (a task as yet incomplete) obliges us to act on the appeals of those black and white people in South Africa who are struggling to undo the injustices with which they live every day. What Harvard and all colleges and universities in this country can do to help is to divest from those corporations which operate in South Africa. Richard Valelly '80 Third-year graduate student in Government
Librarian, I am cold. Pray you, undo this button. Thank you, sir. Do you not see the gazelle on the rushing waters? I know he looks at me ("What if Harry Levin wrote the poems of Edna St. Vincent Millay?"). I am sleepy and the oozy weeds about me twist. "Chirp...
...once prizes majority rule and individual freedom; an independent judiciary remains the best insurance that the former does not steamroll the latter. In the end, that means relying on judges themselves to exercise self-restraint. Few would ask the judges to undo all the rights they have advanced in the past 25 years. Yet, having done so much to change society, the judiciary might now pay more heed to the dictum of Justice Louis Brandeis. "The most important thing we do," he said "is not doing...
...unproductive, and the Foundation is unwilling to allow the name of the library to be altered, then the only remaining option is for the University to take steps to dissolve the agreement. We would recommend that the University offer to return the money, and upon consent of the Foundation, undo the agreement, remove the name, and seek an alternative source of funds...
...overall there have been no fundamental alterations. The return to power of the Conservatives in 1951 did not result in the dismantling of the NHS, just as later Republican administrations did not undo the reforms of the New Deal...