Word: baseness
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...political opinion on campus. Our major objective is to revive student participation which has stagnated due to the indifference of the Reagan-Bush era. We want to get students involved in issues and action instead of just ideology. In Harvard's long history, the Democrats have provided a solid base of political thought and action to the University community and the world. Many former Harvard Democrats such as Theodore Roosevelt, Franklin Roosevelt and John F. Kennedy have gone on to lead the country in the liberal tradition they were part of at Harvard...
...problems with such an argument are obvious: Why base moral judgments on what other people think? Why not, instead, work to change anti-gay attitudes? There's also another problem with this anti-intellectual argument. It's wrong...
Within six months, however, a similar protest occurred at Princeton. At the University of Wisconsin, the full faculty met for the first time in 19 years and gave ROTC an ultimatum: admit gays and lesbians, or leave campus by 1993. At MIT, the home base of the Harvard ROTC program, students are demanding that the school issue a similar demand. And no less than 35 U.S. Representatives signed a letter calling on ROTC not to force those students who were kicked out of the program after discovering they were gay to repay their scholarships...
...beginning of a race is always my favorite part. I turn inwards and take stock of everything--energy level was high, legs felt powerful, muscles were long and loose. I may have been sitting still but underneath I could feel the solid base of miles I've built up all semester...
...decision-making in Washington, defense decisions are given unquestioned priority over commercial and other concerns. This has been especially true when it comes to Japan given that the Pentagon looks at Japan as an "an unsinkable aircraft carrier" in the Far East where we have placed premium value on base rights at Camp Zama, Yokosuka, Yokota, Misawa, Iwakuni and throughout Okinawa Prefecture. While not every Japanese is fond of U.S. bases on Japanese soil, the deal has been sweetened by virtually throwing open the U.S. market to Japanese goods...