Word: wronging
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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HARVARD'S admissions policy is not perfectly democratic, but the staff position ignores that there may be nothing wrong with that...
Even if we don't join, the least we can do is give them our support. It doesn't do anything to accuse them sophomorically of being in the wrong simply because they participate in the U.S. military...
...cannot find the moviemaking skill to suit his fine passion. His actors look stranded; with the exception of the tremulous, bewitching De Medeiros, they indulge in huff and bluster. As for the sex that got Henry & June in trouble, it's less Millerian than Victorian. There's something wrong with a sexual film when its erotic ideal, the statuesque Thurman, is kept mostly under wraps. Ironically and fatally, Henry & June lacks redeeming prurient interest...
Assuming a "go," the war will be fought massively, but conventionally -- unless Saddam launches a chemical attack and threatens Saudi Arabia's survival. "If our calculations prove wrong and half of Riyadh is destroyed," says an Arab official privy to the war gaming now under way, "then I wouldn't be surprised if tactical nuclear weapons were used, and I don't think many would resist their...
...reform of our economy must begin, alas, with taxes. The fact that America bears a smaller tax burden than other developed countries is not conclusive: perhaps the others are doing it wrong. Still, as a nation we are reluctant to pay for what we -- the sum of all our various constituencies and interest groups -- want. At the same time, we don't get adequate value for the taxes we do pay. So tax increases must be balanced by severe cuts in expenditures, especially entitlements for the better off, plus farm and other subsidies. But a mere split-the-difference deal...