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...North Atlantic. In July daring commando actions by Greenpeace activists scuttled Shell Oil's plans to sink the storage platform Brent Spar. According to the triumphant activists, the campaign saved the sea from pollution by 5,000 tons of oil. Last month chagrined Greenpeace officials were forced to admit that the potential environmental damage had been grossly miscalculated. The Brent Spar actually contained only 10 tons...
Even while endorsing Coffey, we have to admit that the rest of the vice presidential candidates are a far more impressive bunch than the presidential candidates; we'd almost prefer that the races were switched. Former Treasurer Brian K. Blais '97 has been a steady worker outside the limelight, and Bradford E. Miller '97 (who is a Crimson editor) has pushed for several pieces of pro-student council legislation...
...urge all members of the Harvard community to take off their rose-colored glasses and look with unhindered vision at this "march of shame." Fanaticism and bigotry have never been the path to equality, and they cannot be awarded that distinction on October 16. Let us not have to admit, years down the road, that we were the intellectual Neville Chamberlains...
...interview with the BBC. The verdict, he said, "is not a metaphor for all race relations in the U.S. There is an enormous chasm. And sometimes we forget, when we see some progress and some blacks doing well . . . what we have left behind in our inner cities." Powell admit that racial tensions could present problems for him if he runs for president. "There are some people who see me as an American who happens to be black. But there are also many, many Americans who see me first as a black man, and we have to get that filter...
...event was groundbreaking for the school, which was long regarded as a bastion of all-male conservatism and had been criticized for being slow to admit females...