Word: though
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...while the book is a novel, and makes the traditional assertions as to its fictional basis, most of the background details about Harvard and the American economic and political scenes are true to life. This verisimultude is perhaps what makes the novel most enjoyable, and most frightening. Though none of the outrageous events charted in this book ever happened, the readers need take no leap of faith to imagine them actually occurring...
...assert, however, that the apparent fundability of projects must not be the primary scale used to build the Harvard of the 21st century. Some of Harvard's fields and programs, though they may represent a sizable body of important scholarship, are less glamorous, less publicized and less funded than others. Harvard has to realize that fundraising decisions made now could further institutionalize this inequity in the future...
...view that as censorship--it gets to be tricky, though. That's why I was in no position to ask Jon to take it down....It's something that he had to do for himself," he said...
...student who hung a Confederate flag in her window last fall said she was disappointed by Jiles's decision. Bridget L. Kerrigan '91 said Jiles should have left the flag up even though "it may not be a popular symbol up here because a lot of people misunderstand it." Kerrigan, who is from Virginia, called the flag's removal "a victory for small-minded liberalism and...a defeat for free speech...
...believe in standing up for principles and those which I have discussed I am avowing. I did not intend for the principle of freedom of expression to be the issue; if I had, the resolution of the issue would have been totally different. Maybe by moving the flag though I will make clear those principles which I am so proud to have as a part of my Southern upbringing, especially consideration of the feelings of others. Jon P. Jiles...