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Thomas Connolly '72 and Paul Jarvie '71, both former Boston Latin students who have watched DiCara's political career, assert that even if he loses this year, he may come back to win the next time, as other young candidates have done in the past...
...academic necessity. After the usual jockeying for a topic to discuss, he gradually worked himself into a discussion of the (to him) shameful neglect with which Harvard's American Civilization program is supervised. One could sense the need of this tenured man from a coastal tomato field to assert his own identity by striking out at that oppressive ogre in Cambridge, through me, the local embodiment. Suddenly, I found myself defending Harvard's tough-mindedness, its neglect of graduate students in the name of intellectual individualism. I was rebuking this man of the West with all the hauteur...
AMERICAN officials proudly assert that the entire program will be run by six Americans-four economic advisers and two secretaries. There will be little American supervision of its operation. "This aid program is not like other ones," one American Embassy official says; "the stuff comes to the dock and it's signed over to the Cambodians. That's the last we see of it. There's no 'bullet to the body' policy here...
...also hate an "aggressive" woman. Ours has been a Jane Crow society for several thousands of years, and the master group always fears its chattels more than any foreign enemy. When one's inferior status is taken for granted, any attempt on that person's part to assert equality will be regarded as an act of aggression. But does anything in the present situation suggest a complete reversal of female and male roles in our society? Is it likely, for in stance, that women will become the chief breadwinners while men perform domestic chores? Will women become...
Hartgering cited a finding in Louisiana where a federal court overrode two former verdicts to assert that the positions of nurses' aide and orderly do differ and therefore the salaries should remain unequal...