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Counter brought the two men, the 80-year-old Amer-Eskimo sons of Robert E. Peary and Matthew A. Henson, back to the U.S. for a "North Pole Reunion." Their 11-day visit received international attention and was marked by a tribute from President Reagan and an honorary banquet at Harvard...
...noted that both Asian Americans and white applicants received positive weight for athletic "tips." There was not evidence in the Summary Sheets to suggest that the implementation of athletic preference or "tip" was in any way designed to negatively treat or affect Asian Amer can applicants...
...majority of Palestinians are neither politicized nor violent but want merely to be left alone to live in peace. Yet most West Bank Arab leaders would probably argue that political grievances are what bind the Palestinians together. "What the Israelis want for themselves, we want for ourselves," says Tawfik Amer, 63, a former Jordanian diplomat. "I do not deny the Israelis their state or their way of life, and they cannot deny me the same." Indeed, there is little doubt that the younger generation of Palestinians has become increasingly radicalized, particularly the university graduates for whom there are few jobs...
...matter only: the rather slippery and rarely mentioned principle of the rights of the individual. Both countries have violated that principle too often in the past, but the principle prevails. Add the rights of property, free speech, freedom of religion, and a few other advantages that Britain and Amer ica have developed over the years, and you have the central reasons that if these two nations continue to blunder through history, at least they will do so together...
...pointed out that the consumer price index rose in September at a 12.7% annual rate and declared that Carter's record on inflation and unemployment "is a failure on a scale so vast, in dimensions so broad, with effects so devastating, that it is virtually without parallel in Amer ican history...