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Within these treatments of the past, however, lay basic, nagging questions about historical purpose. Why do Levine's book and other works--which are uniformly critical of the state of American society today--even attempt to find a rosy past? Wouldn't their critiques of repugnant, self-perpetuating class divisions in America be enhanced by demonstrating that the American experiment was flawed from the start? Why acknowledge that there was a time--however brief--when America was able to right itself and lay down the roots of a just society...
...author did raise important questions about the tactics of some anti-abortionists. He wrote that an anti-abortion group calling themselves "Operation Rescue" had used "blacklists and smear campaigns" against women who spoke out in favor of abortion. And he noted that antiabortionists have repeatedly firebombed clinics in an attempt to prevent women from obtaining abortions...
Saturday will be one of the two toughest tests (along with Yale on February 22) in the Crimson's attempt to win its seventh straight national and Ivy League titles...
...feeling we've been getting is that minorities are intimidated and feel like we would shut them out," Davidson said, adding that he has seen "no more that ten" minority students audition for a particular play. He said that the group's efforts are an attempt to end the "homogeneity" of Harvard theater...
...hold in your hand an attempt to recapture the best of those images. 1968 is a first for TIME: a special pictorial issue of the magazine, available only at newsstands, more than double the size of the regular weekly issue, printed and bound with special care and sponsored by a single advertiser, Chevrolet. The project was inspired by the phenomenal popularity of our Jan. 11, 1988, cover story on the events of 1968, and by our own hunger for more images from that unusually graphic year. Some of the pictures herein originally appeared in TIME, others...