Word: presentation
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...prolonged discussion of Germany is likely to stir up latent anti-German sentiment and a fear of neo-Nazism. Officially, the Soviets are civil, but determinedly dead-set against reunification. Nikolai Portugalov, a Soviet expert on Germany, explained the Soviet stance to the Boston Globe last week. "The present geopolitical conditions in Europe," he said with Kruschev-like bluntness, "cannot tolerate a German confederation...
...wonder why Katz says that endorsing the non-ordered choice proposal would be caving in. Most people, including Katz it seems, don't fully understand what non-ordered choice would mean for them. If we had non-ordered choice with three choices, the only difference between it and the present system would be that around percent fewer of the students would get their first choice (33 percent instead of near 50 percent) and 20 percent more of the students would get their third choice (33 percent instead of around 10 percent). Also, non-ordered choice has an added benefit...
Several disciplined students said they felt inhibited from criticizing the Board because of a policy requiring senior tutors to summarize the hearings for a student's permanent record, Ryan said. These students feared tutors would present their case unfavorably if criticized...
Adam B. Ulam, Gurney professor of history and political science, says that the best scholars can do is "present an objective picture of what has led to the present situation," with some indication about future possibilities...
...afraid we're trying to reach a middle-ground to gain political points rather than to get a solution to any problems which might exist in the present system...