Word: viewed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...gays are not welcome but are actively persecuted in the armed forces. Harvard University's Faculty Council departs from this view, urging rather "all students and officers of instruction and administration to assure that the principles of toleration and respect for others are preserved in this community." Can there be any further debate about the compatibility of these two institutions...
...harm you are doing by espousing the 'pro-choice' view will require great efforts to repair," San Diego Bishop Leo Maher wrote last week to Lucy Killea, 67, a Democrat running in a special election for California's state senate. He then applied a little used sanction that denies Communion to Catholics who "obstinately persist in manifest grave sin." Killea says she will abide by the decree but will not change her position. She is the first political candidate to receive this censure...
...Venezuela has recently joined the Non-Aligned Movement. There's a view in Washington that the NAM is less relevant and coherent than in the past, that it has split up into regional and parochial groups. So you've joined a club just at the point when that club might be going out of business. How would you respond to that...
From the point of view of American museums, the art-market boom is an unmitigated disaster. These institutions voice a litany of complaints, a wrenching sense of disfranchisement and weakness, as their once adequate annual buying budgets of $2 million to $5 million are turned to chicken feed by art inflation. "There are many areas where museums can no longer buy," says James Wood, director of the Art Institute of Chicago. "It's bad for the museums, but it goes beyond that. It's bad for the country." The symbol of the Metropolitan Museum of Art's plight...
...believed then, as I do now, that a distinction must be made between academic and/or cultural forms of exchange and politics if the integrity of academic pursuits is to be maintained. We should not view academic exchange as a tool for politics, but rather as a force divorced from political dynamics that can have only positive effects on international relations...