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...didn't just say yes to this referendum in a vacuum," Bonifaz said. "Thousands of people across the country have voiced their opinions that what the Court is doing is outrageous. With this vote, we have only added our voices to the protest...
...house leadership is trying to fill a vacuum in executive leadership," Flood said. The Canton Democrat, who is running far behind Francis X. Bellotti and Lt. Gov. Evelyn F. Murphy in the governor's race, said Dukakis should resign...
...final exit of the Indian forces has defused one of Sri Lanka's most combustible issues. But the pullout also created a power vacuum in the island's north and east that was quickly filled by the militants the Indians had been fighting, the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, who have yet to renounce their goal of a separate state for the country's minority Tamils. For now, the separatists and the central government in Colombo are working in concert for peace, but their alliance is anything but stable...
...assume, finally, that threat, even if banished from the East, will not come from elsewhere. We simply have no idea where Germany, China, Japan are headed. We don't know how the Balkans will evolve. We do know that with the Soviet decline other forces will occupy the vacuum, among them long- dormant nationalisms and newly awakened Islamic fundamentalism, neither of which is necessarily friendly to American interests or values. We also know that in a high-tech world, dozens of regimes are acquiring weapons of mass destruction (nuclear, chemical, biological) and the means to deliver them to almost...
...into nihilism, and this should give its left-wing critics pause. No one today advocates the policy that homosexuals (to pick the current pet cause of campus liberals) be exterminated. Society agrees that such a policy would be evil. If the left gets what it wants, i.e. the moral vacuum of relativism, in another twenty years anything will be morally possible. Mike Reynolds '91 President, Harvard Conservative Club