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Harrison says that combat should have been viewed "only as a last resort," but "in this particular war, it is clear that communication was still possible before it started...
SCHKOLNICK'S indignation at the Fly's discriminatory membership practices was understandable, but MCAD has more important discrimination to combat in society. Discrimination in housing. Discrimination in employment. Discrimination that directly affects the livelihoods of working men and women. Discrimination that blatantly violates...
...know it, and many of us say it, but few of us have had the courage to combat the massive disinformation campaign that began to confront us when we were innocent little froshlings entering the Yard for the first time. Poster gum, we were told, magically allows us to decorate our rooms without destroying the (ahem) priceless architectural treasures we inhabit. (I apologize to Mather House residents for excluding them from the discourse. Try to think back to your first year, and maybe something will ring a bell. If you lived in Canaday, I can't help...
...Union address, the millions of people tuning in saw a President who was finally projecting the vision that all the high-priced media handlers had been unable to supply for him. With images drawn from World War II, when as a young Navy pilot he flew 58 combat missions, Bush spoke convincingly of a cause that is just, moral and right; of the dangers of appeasement; of the need for sacrifice so that "the strong are neither tempted nor able to intimidate the weak." While he altered Churchill's "finest hour" to the rather less ringing "defining hour," the President...
...Klerk calls for the swift repeal of racist laws that have long dictated where blacks can work and live. Mandela and Buthelezi embrace but remain far apart on strategy. Black violence and white resistance could slow the timetable for change. -- The Soviet Union marshals soldiers and sailors to combat a fast-spreading epidemic of violent crime...