Word: echo
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...Senator from Connecticut. Bush met Dwight Eisenhower and Secretary of State John Foster Dulles, the diplomat who riled the world by suggesting he had "to go to the brink" of war to keep peace. The President ponders a question on whether his current policy is a Dulles echo, then says, "Maybe so, maybe so. What I'm trying to do is convince Saddam Hussein that I intend to do my part in implementing the United Nations resolutions. The way to have peace is for him to understand that. I don't think he does...
...that the gulf crisis would not be "another Vietnam," but in a way it already is. Everywhere you look, they're back: the hawks, the doves, the generals and Administration officials on the defensive, the clergymen and professors, the has-beens and wannabes on the offensive. Even the slogans echo across the years. ALL WE ARE SAYING, read a sign in front of the White House last week, IS GIVE SANCTIONS A CHANCE...
Harsh as it may seem, al-Ebraheem's assessment is common. Across the ideological spectrum -- from those who regularly opposed the ruling elite's every move to some of the elite's most prominent members -- the echo startles. "Ours was a culture of dependency," says Tareq al-Suwaidan, a leader of the opposition Islamic Trend movement. "We were the pampered product of an affluent society taken to the nth degree," says Minister of Planning Sulaiman Mutawa. "Everywhere," remarks Ali Jaber al-Sabah, a KPC managing director, "there was the spirit of ba'dain, of 'tomorrow.' Any real change...
...that has caused the region so much grief in the past. People are all too ready to blame others for their problems. When Havel suggested that Czechoslovakia could not expect open borders with the rest of Europe if it kept its own frontier with Poland closed, he found no echo among his countrymen. A survey by the Public Opinion Research Institute disclosed that while more than 81% of those polled supported Havel generally, only 4% agreed with him on the border issue...
...message is beaten into our subconscious. Let us hope that Harvard students can resist the temptation to punish others for their body types. Such prejudice should be considered as cruel as racism or homophobia. Martha K. Taylor '92 Skyler Vinton '92 Co-Directors Eating Concerns Hotline and Outreach, (ECHO...