Word: windows
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...staff position is correct: the man hanging a Confederate flag in his window is indulging in a legitimate but insensitive form of speech. But his intentions--pure or otherwise--have no relevance to this issue...
...College takes no action, it will be moving away from its stated positions and away from its painstaking efforts to foster a tolerant environment. The College should demand the removal of the flag from the window...
...hanging of a Confederate flag in the window of the Leverett Towers constitutes a legitimate--and insensitive--exercise of free speech. Accordingly, the Harvard community has a dual responsibility: first, to affirm the right of the student to display the flag and second, to register enough thoughtful disapproval to persuade the person to remove...
...seemingly insatiable appetite for polls arises because they satisfy so many editorial needs. In times of uncertainty they offer apparent objectivity and precision. On otherwise slow news days they track the excitement of public opinion on the march. ("Watch out! Here comes 'Big Mo.' ") They promise a window into private thoughts without the inconvenience of intimacy. And, in a world of ten-second sound bites and shrinking news stories, poll-derived graphics can be wonderfully concise...
After police raided the gang's headquarters, seizing weapons and arresting four 5th Streeters, the nightmare began. A Molotov cocktail cracked Rodriguez's bedroom window; gang members marauded nightly through the * neighborhood; a suspect's father and his cronies camped out on Rodriguez's doorstep, screaming death threats. Squad cars always seemed to arrive after the tormentors had left. Rodriguez moved his children to the bedroom floor and pushed furniture against the windows. To protect his living room, he parked the family truck in the front yard and took up sentry duty by the front door...