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...intention of cooperating. We've taken damn good care of our dog, given him shots, and worked hard at training him. He doesn't bother other people. He means too much to us for us to give him up just because the CHUL affirms a regulation we consider unjust. Our feelings on the subject are hardly unique. One guy is talking about a law suit over his cat unless Harvard can prove that he's not doing justice to the animal...

Author: By Bennett H. Beach, | Title: We're Coming to Take You Away, Ha Ha | 2/9/1971 | See Source »

...horrors, like the aerial bombing of cities in World War II, become acceptable under the doctrine of response to "military necessity." Yet he traces the concept of military law to ancient human usage, to residual religious and moral restraint, to St. Augustine's first definition of just and unjust war, and to the irreducible pinch of practical sense, decency and self-interest that hold human societies together...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Morality of Violence | 11/23/1970 | See Source »

Obviously the effects of the United States presence in Puerto Rico have not been all bad, and it would be unjust to ignore the growth and diversification of the economy and the improvements in literacy and health care which have taken place in the past years-although these have not helped all segments of society equally. Many people-and perhaps a majority of Puerto Ricans-suggest statehood as a solution for the island's ills. As a state, Puerto Rico would gain true representation in Congress and increased control over its own affairs...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Puerto Rico libre? | 11/6/1970 | See Source »

...Jewish leaders have rejected the council decision as inadequate. "It's been a disgrace to the institution that they've been so petty and unjust," Jay R. Rothstein '71, president of Harvard-Radcliffe Hillel, said yesterday. "Harvard University expects its Jewish students to desecrate their sabbath," Rabbi BenZion Gold, University Jewish chaplain, charged last night...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Jewish Leaders Blast Faculty Council Vote On Final Exam Policy | 11/3/1970 | See Source »

...stood at one or the other of two extremes: "strict, cruel and unjust or weak, vacillating, ineffective or absent altogether." The son grows up hating the father, and learning to take on the cop, capitalism and the Establishment. He can, says Wahl, even murder without guilt. Many revolutionaries suffer from searing feelings of inadequacy, Wahl adds, and therefore have a greater-than-ordinary need for notoriety. Supporting this view, De Paul University Psychologist Thomas Milburn speaks of the "Icarus complex" among many terrorists?"even though you fall to earth, you've tried one spectacular thing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: The City as a Battlefield: A Global Concern | 11/2/1970 | See Source »

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