Word: offers
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...York Times. "No German soldier can say, 'I fought for democracy' . . . What Germans lack now is the consecration by blood of their democratic state . . ." But whose blood should the Germans have shed in their "consecration," and what would Miller say if any German were foolish enough to offer such a gory theory of "democratic faith...
...ahead, stare at them. Everybody does it here. In fact, it's one of the best activities Cambridge has to offer. If, like most of us, you have a healthy curiosity about the behavior of your fellow human beings, you'll find Harvard Square a people-watcher's paradise, a sort of wildlife preserve of our own species...
...fact, if there's anything that unites many of the different groups in the Square, it's the academic air they possess. The book-filled backpack (the embodiment of "intellectual baggage," perhaps?) is the closest thing to a uniform Cambridge has to offer...
...most incisive new voices in journalism may be lost. Abe Peck, chairman of the magazine group at Northwestern University's Medill School of Journalism, complains that while "there are plenty of magazines that tell you what to wear, where to eat and how to shop," publications that offer a more provocative editorial edge may be an endangered resource. Many analysts feel this editorial quality is more important than most advertisers realize, because it delivers more attentive readers. Some of yesterday's faddiest publications, like Rolling Stone, built on precisely that kind of approach to become today's prosperous graybeards. Many...
...Rodriguez episode is the latest in a string of abuses that have aroused concern over Mexico's human-rights record. Salinas, on tour in Tokyo, immediately telephoned Castaneda to offer sympathies and sent a letter to the liberal daily La Jornada promising to pursue the culprits. But at the same time, an editorial in the government newspaper El Nacional suggested that Castaneda, an ally of Cuauhtemoc Cardenas, who ran a close second to Salinas in the fraud-tainted 1988 presidential race, had caused the threat against himself by consorting with the opposition...