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...Paramount to our problems, they claim, is a tendency to pepper our dialogue with the word 'like' as if it were a verbal tic, demonstrating our abysmal vocabularies and utter lack of neurological activity...

Author: By Ann M.imes, | Title: Student Claims 'Like' Is Linguistic Freedom | 3/11/1993 | See Source »

...MacKinnon's sentiments are, she has a right to free speech. But her hatemongering should not win her tenure at Harvard, nor should it take the place of balanced scholarship as a required academic credential. For CCR, which claims to champion civil rights, to endorse her candidacy reflects utter hypocrisy. No civil right is more important than free speech, and few are more precious than the equal protection of the law. Only Orwellian doublespeak can justify granting a bigoted censor tenure under the guise of promoting civil rights. Who will CCR support for tenure next? Leonard Jeffries? Hans Bader Second...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Think Twice About Tenuring MacKinnon | 3/9/1993 | See Source »

During the presidential campaign, Bill Clinton said he was outraged at the events in Bosnia. But his latest Bosnian policy has shown utter cowardice. Rather than seeking a military solution, President Clinton has decided to join the current peace talks, considering the Vance-Owen plan that calls for partitioning Bosnia...

Author: By Uzma Ahmad, | Title: Vietnam's Legacy | 2/27/1993 | See Source »

With a quiet modesty that belied their utter domination, the Harvard women's squash team finished its team season by clinching the national championship...

Author: By Peter K. Han, | Title: Double National Championship for Squash | 2/25/1993 | See Source »

...prove who is the highest authority," he wanted to know, "is it Rabin and his Supreme Court or the U.N. Security Council?" It is neither, of course, but rather the world's single surviving superpower, which, however loath it may be to use it, still has the power to utter the most important...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: No Surrender | 2/8/1993 | See Source »

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