Word: creationism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...would seem that the creation of a regional dumping site is the obvious solution--but it has met with vehement opposition from New Englanders, who fear that the low-level radioactive wastes are a health hazard. The federal government needs to undertake to determine the effects of the waste storage and the potential of on-site incineration. If, on balance, the dangers of waste outweigh the benefits of the medical research that produces them, then either the medical research should be halted or we should turn to on-site incineration, if it is feasible. If waste storage is safe, Harvard...
...shuns the PLO because it uses terrorist tactics. But Israeli guerrillas--under Menachem Begin--also used terrorist tactics in the period before the creation of Israel in 1948. Moreover, the recent bombings of civilian Palestinian camps in Lebanon are as deplorable as violent raids by Palestinian terrorists...
Bill Cain's King Lear creates ironies like that; the production staggers like blind Gloucester between a formal, tradition-ridden interpretation and a self-consciously innovative approach, until it topples over a Dover cliff of its own creation into farce. Too many serious lines receive laughs, or worse, snickers, from BSC's audience; the incongruities in Cain's direction must take the blame...
Others are less convinced. Susan H. Goldstein '80, president of the Radcliffe Union of Students, thinks the creation of a Harvard cheerleading squad is "almost embarrassing." When Goldstein went to Harvard football games freshman year, she remembers, "people would always make fun of the other team's cheerleaders. We felt elite, because we didn't stoop to that...
Leonard Nimoy, who played Dr. Spock on the T.V. series "Star Trek," spoke to 50 Harvard students Sunday in Kirkland House about the creation of "Vincent," the story of Vincent Van Gogh's last ten years, written, directed and acted by Nimoy...