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...Sinise as Tom Joad tells her that wherever people are organizing for freedom and a better day, he will be there, he does not ooze nature's-aristocrat nobility like Henry Fonda on celluloid. His is the tough, nervy attempt of a frightened man facing imprisonment or death to assert that his struggle has had some meaning...
Friends eulogize Duarte as the man who, as one close adviser put it, "started a process, a tendency toward democracy." Detractors, such as Jesuit scholar Ignacio Martin Baro, assert that "history will remember Duarte as the President who mortgaged the sovereignty of his country to the Americans." Duarte may best be remembered, however, as the leader who could not live up to his own best intentions...
...council is going to assert any claim to representation it simply has to be prepared to evaluate and consider the decisions made by its branches," Bramson said. "You have to defer to the judgment of the larger body or else there's no reason to have the committee structure at all. I think the council had to vote the way it did to maintain the democratic process...
...assert, however, that the apparent fundability of projects must not be the primary scale used to build the Harvard of the 21st century. Some of Harvard's fields and programs, though they may represent a sizable body of important scholarship, are less glamorous, less publicized and less funded than others. Harvard has to realize that fundraising decisions made now could further institutionalize this inequity in the future...
...Harvard University will continue to assert that there are not enough qualified Asian-American humanities scholars suitable for tenure. And foundations such as the Mellon and Ford will continue to deny minority fellowships to Asian-Americans because "Orientals are overrepresented in the sciences." It leaves Asian-Americans paralyzed by a Catch...