Word: waking
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...potential student protest against the presence on campus of such mass murderers as Secretary of War Weinberger '38 and Presidents' Botha of South Africa. Bok says students should sit quickly and listen politely to these butchers and then--maybe--ask few questions at the end. This comes in the wake of the statement made by some faculty Council members that Adolf Hitler himself would be welcome to come to Harvard and "speak freely in favor of anti-Semitism." (Crimson. 5 April 1983). Harvard's idea of an "oasis of free speech" is nothing but a cesspool...
...almost anything they wanted about public officials (but not about private citizens). In order to sue successfully for libel, a public official had to prove "actual malice," which the court defined as reporting that was known to be false or showed a "reckless disregard" for the truth. In the wake of the Sullivan decision, judges initially threw out cases involving public figures before they got to a jury, reasoning that the plaintiff could never prove actual malice. Lately, however, judges have been more willing to let juries decide; out of sympathy for the plaintiffs and sometimes out of hostility...
...WAKE of the 1961 Berlin Wall crisis, two psychologists, Sibylle Escalona and Milton Schwebel, conducted separate surveys among children aged 10 through 18. Though the surveys differed in size and methodology, they reported the same finding: a perceived fear about the possibility of nuclear war and the expectation among many children that the bomb is destined...
...horror of nuclear weapons is something fully shared by most of us; this is not at question anymore, especially in the wake of massive public education about the subject in the last half-decade. Against this backdrop, and given the inadequacy experts see in current research, the continual hectoring of the population about the psychological impact of nuclear war becomes less an intellectual exercise than an exercise in pushing the freeze, a defensible but separate proposition. What was a legitimate and important research agenda becomes increasingly hostage to a political agenda, because the only thing about investigations of children...
Such was the level of discourse emanating from our capital last week in the wake of the overcovered and mostly inconsequential first-ever meeting between Reagan and a senior Kremlin official. No one doubts the existence of political cynicism in years divisible by four, and certainly political cynicism was the modus operant of the day; the Reaganauts have an election to win, after all, and the Russians world opinion to placate. Only in an Administration which pushes for high-level meeting in its fourth year, which signs no arms-control agreement, and which deep-sixes no arms-control agreements...