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...just takes a bit of courage??and of course, certainty—in a world where both are as bare as a pair of Manolo Blahnik strappy sandals...
...decided that it had to be done. I’m just going to hope that things turn out better for the university.” Ledford, who said he plans to vote no-confidence, also said he intends to commend Krauss for his “civil courage?? at Thursday’s meeting. “I think it’s very, very telling, at Harvard or any university, when you have the arts and sciences faculty mobilized enough to start talking [about removal],” Ledford said. “It means they...
Thomas R. Jackson ’08, a Dems member-at-large, said he read from John F. Kennedy’s ’40 “Profiles in Courage?? to honor the current efforts of Democratic Senators...
...takes a particular type of courage??the courage to be unpopular—to become a whistle-blower. Initially, Watkins, Cooper, and Rowley were warned to keep quiet but they kept talking, like generations of female truth-tellers before them. Look at Rosa Parks, who refused to move to the back of the bus, galvanizing the country’s civil rights movement. Retired Army Lt. General Claudia J. Kennedy, the highest-ranking female officer, was the one to expose sexual harassment in the armed forces. And it was Erin Brockovich, a minor legal clerk who helped...
...paper or verbal promises from dictators. An eye-opening example of this came in Feb. 1998, when he traveled to Baghdad following Saddam Hussein’s obstruction of U.N. weapons inspectors. Annan smoked Cuban cigars with the Iraqi tyrant, praised him as a man of “courage?? and a “builder,” and cut a deal to keep the inspections going. Before leaving, the secretary-general told a reporter that Iraq had been unfairly “demonized” by the international community. Back at U.N. headquarters, Annan said...