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For weeks Walter Mondale had predicted with facetious precision that he would acquire the magic number of 1,967 delegates needed to pin down the Democratic presidential nomination at 11:59 a.m. on the day after Super Tuesday III?the final day of one of the most grueling, frenetic and...
In upholding the land-reform law, the court cited the Fifth Amendment, which allows the Government to acquire property for "public use" after paying "just compensation." Typically, this right of eminent domain is invoked to permit the purchase of land for roads and public projects. The court affirmed that a...
Art critics are unimpressed. "Kitsch," some of them proclaim. The works, says Los Angeles Sculptor Richard Oginz, "strike a Norman Rockwell note." Indeed, Johnson is not about to knock Rodin off his pedestal, but his garden-variety American archetypes are a welcome-and welcoming-relief from "plunk art": find a...
The hatred many of us felt for Harvard led us to reject entirely the idea of the University, of scholarship, of study. Yet at the same time, there were books that we wanted desperately to read, and which I, at least, could not understand alone. I remember trying to acquire...
Meanwhile, the members of the Black Faculty and Administrators struggle to reconcile their minority concerns with their positions as employees of the University. Thus far, this "inside" position has lent a more moderate tone to the group's demands. But if Black hiring does not rise in coming months, their...