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While America should rightly applaud itself for the advancements in opening educational and economic opportunities to blacks, the ominous cloud of racism does loom overhead. You can be the wealthiest, most highly educated, most successful black person in the world, but as long as you are constantly forced to view your wealth, education or success in the context of your socially-constructed blackness, substantial progress has yet to be made against racism and white supremacy. As Malcolm X put it, "You just can't stab a man in the back nine inches, pull the knife out three inches, and call...
...script, grew up in Cambridge, and Damon attended Harvard before dropping out to pursue his Hollywood career. The plot involves a mathematical prodigy from Southie working as a janitor at MIT, that school two T stops from Harvard. I walked into the Kendall Square Theater prepared to criticize or applaud the movie's school and our cities. The audience was a tough crowd; the seat were filled with MIT professors and students and a smattering of Harvard folk, all anxious to see how their academic worlds would appear on celluloid...
...micro-initiatives and focused policies that Clinton has presented, ones for which the traditional conservative rallying cries do not apply, the Republicans are--literally, at least according to Gingrich's press secretary--silenced. They have no lexicon with which to attack the streamlined proposals. And so instead, they applaud...
...district attorney's seizure of two paintings whose ownership is disputed by descendants of Viennese Jewish families [ART, Jan. 19], Robert Hughes described the "impeccable conduct" of the present Austrian government in dealing with the restoration of art stolen by the Nazis. If this were true, that government would applaud and support the seizure, given Austria's rather wretched history of restitution over the past decades. Politically inspired or not, the seizure does have a semblance of morality, an aspect of this affair that Hughes dismisses. This action might, at the very least, force all museums to take a good...
...applaud any effort to reduce irresponsible drinking," he said. Epps also said he believed this will reduce underage drinking, although he expressed concern that other businesses still "are quite willing to deliver" to college campuses...