Word: self
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...feel I could better appreciate the present if I had some first-hand knowledge of the past. I know it's self-centered, but try to understand my sentiments. It's just like conservative columnist George F. Will suggesting that we preserve communism in Albania "as a museum...
Indeed, our way is better. But it isn't perfect, and we're falling behind in the race for self-improvement. The students marching in the streets of Prague should not flatter us, but humble...
Solidarity is at once a personal and a universal matter, for it raises the fundamental question of what is the "self" and what is the "other." One of the glories of our era is that we have witnessed the birth of global solidarity; imperfect, struggling, but nonetheless real. We see it in the creation of the United Nations, in the concern about nuclear war, in the growing worldwide resolve to protect the environment and in the struggle against AIDS...
...attempt by Israel's supporters to smear critics of Israel and Zionism as "anti-Semitic" or "self-hating Jews" is simply Jewish McCarthyism...
...supporter of self-determination for Black South Africans, Palestinian Arabs and Israeli Jews, I find these ties, which include nuclear weapons cooperation and Israeli aid in maintaining apartheid, e.g., by giving South Africa counter-insurgency aid, repugnant. Rather than attack the messenger, Israel's friends, such as Fein, ought to heed the message. At the least, they ought to support the right of conferences, whether pro- or anti-Israeli policy, to be held at universities. Free speech is free speech, and we cannot allow the exclusion of meetings because they "would have obscured real debate." Edmund R. Hanauer Executive Director...