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...proposing a reconsideration of proportional representation. "New Jersey will never confederate on the plan," he declared. "She would be swallowed up. I will never consent to the present system . . . Myself or my state will never submit to tyranny or despotism." The supporters of the Virginia plan were no less vehement. "Are not the citizens of Pennsylvania equal to those of New Jersey?" demanded James Wilson of Pennsylvania. "Does it require 150 of the former to balance 50 of the latter? . . . If the small states will not confederate on this plan, Pennsylvania would not confederate on any other...
...fall of 1936, the University instituted a new rule for bidding a woman from visiting a House without another woman, provoking The Crimson's vehement protest. In its denunciation of the new (and soon-to-be-repeated) policy, however, The Crimson did not challenge the University's role in enforcing morality; it went without question that the University would, in addition to educating its students, instill "virtue" in them...
...clear. They support the state of emergency. They support the detention of thousands of children without trial, and they support the actions of the security forces." All that was left for opponents of the government to do, he continued, was to resist "as strongly as we can." Almost as vehement in his criticism of the election results was Chief Minister Buthelezi of the KwaZulu homeland, who is often described as the country's leading black moderate. He declared, "I am totally appalled at what happened, and I see a long, hard, costly political grind ahead." Oliver Tambo, head...
...Washington debates, Huntington drew some vehement support, particularly among the NAS's 177 social scientists, who have been admitted since membership criteria were widened 16 years ago to provide a broader social context for counsel to the Government. One social-scientist member said in a speech, "His work is quite impressive, and he is a very fine scholar and a good scientist." After the vote, Huntington defended equations in his writings as "simply a way of summing up a complicated argument." He added, "Good Lord, any good social scientist knows the things he studies are constantly changing, full of exceptions...
...severe political embarrassment for the President. Reagan has repeatedly denied that he knew anything whatever about the diversion, most recently at the March 19 news conference that Poindexter did not watch. Asked if he might have been told about the diversion but had forgotten, Reagan replied with a vehement no. After the formal session had ended -- but while he was still on television -- Reagan added that Poindexter and North "just didn't tell me what was going on." That flat statement dismayed some advisers, who had suggested that Reagan might want to use a hedge. Said one nervous adviser...