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...second game took place in Lehman College's Apex, an athletic complex more hospitable to top-flight collegiate competition. The matchup between Harvard and Brown promised just that...
...celebrate the achievement's of the students graduating from all nine of Harvard's schools and institutions. For undergraduates in the College, it is the culmination of four years of hard work, time that has dramatically changed the course of their lives, collectively and individually. And yet, at this apex of achievement and well-deserved nostalgia, we, as an undergraduate newspaper, cannot help but take this moment to also look ahead, namely, to the next University president...
This astutely reported account of the rise of the late Secretary of Commerce from Harlem's black bourgeoisie to the apex of political power is a warts-and-all portrait of a smooth operator. Holmes, a former TIME correspondent and now the chief race-relations reporter for the New York Times, notes that Brown's strength was making connections between the black world he sprang from and the white power structure. His weakness, which Holmes unflinchingly describes, was an inability to resist the financial and sexual rewards that came along as he clawed...
...move into the managerial positions, adds Branegan, do they encounter resistance. Agency figures appear to bear out the allegations: Black agents make up just over 10 percent of the Secret Service ranks but less than 5 percent of those in management positions. Frustrated at what should be the apex of their careers, the plaintiffs recount years of "doing things the way they should be done," as Reginald Moore says - following the prescribed path, only to be stymied at the last step. Moore's story is not unique, and while the Secret Service spokespeople point to a number of blacks...
...Clumsy was the first stage of this transition, an album that successfully drew upon a mix of artful designand precise production, and this trend reached its unfortunate apex in their latest release, Happiness Is a Not Fish That You Can Catch, a self-conscious album that substituted earnest glam-rock sheen for talented composition...