Word: upholding
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...Abdul Aziz Al-Saud, an alleged kidnapper who gave the school large sums of money. When climbing into bed with moneyed interests, the University should be extremely careful to keep its academic principles independent from its funding sources--a goal that will become more difficult (and more important) to uphold as fundraising is accelerated. Harvard should not sell out to the highest bidder...
...been arrested for assault and 11 others were under investigation by the FBI, the L.A.P.D.'s internal affairs division and the Los Angeles County district attorney's office. Said D.A. Ira Reiner: "It is a terrible moment, and time for serious reflection, when officers who have sworn to uphold the law are indicted for the most serious felonies...
...could say that it is foolish, that we are misreading our interests, that in the long run a freed Soviet empire is more important to America than a small Arabian principality. Perhaps, but the critics' charge is not geopolitical. It is moral. Americans, they maintain, cannot in good conscience uphold freedom in one place and tolerate repression in another...
Etzioni seems animated by his own agenda: intense hostility to legal efforts by civil libertarians to restrict police behavior and uphold individual rights. He says, "I'm hard put to find any organization that is so actively opposed to communitarian issues as the A.C.L.U." The American Civil Liberties Union already has critics to spare; George Bush made it a major theme of his 1988 campaign against Michael Dukakis. Moreover, A.C.L.U. executive director Ira Glasser argues, "The problem with the Etzioni group is that they assume incorrectly that individual rights are not a public good...
...find this assumption about the community's political stance to be thoughtless and personally offensive. We hope that your choice of headlines was an oversight and not a promotion of the said assumption. If it was the latter, please review your responsibility to uphold the standards of good journalism and please reconsider the use of your power to manipulate your readership. Julia M. Fromholz '92 Courtney Alaine Williams...