Word: arco
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Reflecting on Prof. Shelby Steele's performance as a scholar last month at the Kennedy school of Government's ARCO Forum, prompts my protest against the sorry state of political discourse. There is plenty of toleration for error in an entertaining, "show-biz" format, but little tolerance or patience with truth. Steele, famous for one, thin, bestseller, "The Content of Our Character," said the difficulties of Blacks today result from "a failure to adjust to freedom" and repeatedly denounced policies like affirmative action as "preferences...
...discussion, entitled "The Media's Coverage of Clinton's First Year," drew about 300 people to the K-School's ARCO Forum...
Marian Wright Edelman, president of the Children's Defense Fund, described violence as "the ugly, malignant disease that has devoured America and has spread to young children" in a speech last night to an audience of about 500 at the ARCO Forum...
Outspoken cultural critic Camille Paglia railed against Harvard, women's studies, political correctness and multiculturalism in a freewheeling speech to an audience of more than 400 last night at the ARCO Forum...
...blame racism for the problems affecting Blacks in America is largely a mistake, Shelby Steele, a professor of English at San Jose State University, told an audience of 475 people at the Kennedy School of Government's Arco Forum last night...