Word: vietnam
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Thomson Professor of Government Harvey C. Mansfield Jr. '53 sparked campus controversy this semester with comments linking grade inflation to increased Black enrollment in the 1960s and '70s. But students, professors and administrators of that time say they disagree with him and offer their own theories. Some blame the Vietnam War; others talk about a cultural change in attitudes toward grades. But with both sides unable to present statistical evidence, anecdotes and observations dominate...
...opinion is that faculty everywhere, not only at Harvard, tried to align themselves with the students he said. "I really think it was a by product of the Vietnam years...
...equip his flock psychologically for the battles to come, Koresh reportedly played and replayed videos of his favorite movies about the Vietnam War: Platoon, Full Metal Jacket and Hamburger Hill. His followers prepared themselves physically with weight training, military-style drills and obstacle-course runs. To acquaint them with the experience of famine, their vegetarian diet was strictly rationed. Daily life was a harsh mix of work and Bible study. Men labored at construction around the compound, while modestly dressed women did household chores and schooled the children, who were rarely taken off the grounds. Television was forbidden, and children...
...There have always been debates over the extent of the President's authority to respond to unexpected emergencies. But the real erosion began after World War II. During the cold war era, there were claims that the hair-trigger nuclear stalemate made the notion of consulting Congress obsolete. From Vietnam through the invasion of Panama, there were arguments about what was and was not a "war." In the 1980s the issue was usually whether Congress was trying to "micromanage" foreign-policy issues short of actually sending in the troops. By 1991, however, President Bush could claim with a straight face...
Alston said he felt people were carried away with military solutions. "Another Vietnam, which Bosnia could be, will unwhet appetites for intervention," he said...