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...spent part of an otherwise enjoyable spring break apologizing to friends and acquaintances because of your article. You have certainly not reinforced in many minds the image of Harvard as a bastion of warmheartedness and generosity. You have also no doubt hampered the efforts of Harvard admissions officers and athletic coaches who recruit talented and bright students from an area where they have had notable success. In your tounge-and-check apologies you make no reference to these issues. The Harvard Crimson is a campus newspaper, or at least should be. Your journalism has done little to promote the reputation...
...that same spirit Black students should also never forget that Harvard has repeatedly emerged as a bastion of a uniquely American drive for increased human free an and dignity. Despite the inevitable shortcomings of any institution, it would be a loss for Black students to spend four years at Harvard and not sample and draw inspiration from the phalanx of non-Black Harvardians who dedicated their lives to the furthering of universal freedom. Black Harvardians have an opportunity to share the tradition of John Quincy Adams who defended the Black liberation, Cinque, of the absolutionists Emerson, Longfellow and Thoreau. Robert...
...companion of Mathews, Gary Lee Yarbrough, 29, is a suspect in the murder last June 18 of Alan Berg, an outspoken Jewish radio talk-show host in Denver. Authorities say that members of The Order, which is also known as the Silent Brotherhood and the White American Bastion, were also involved in counterfeiting. Says Montana FBI Agent Toby Harding: "These are dangerous, violent people." Declares Idaho Undersheriff Larry Broadbent: "They actually believed that a revolution was possible...
...class previously spared from Reagan's budget cuts, would feel the pinch under the President's new proposals. The budget would effectively extinguish the 32-year-old Small Business Administration, squeezing the availability of loans for start-up enterprises and snuffing out what some have called America's last bastion of middle-class entrepreneurship. The budget would end the SBA's general lending program, at a saving of $1.5 billion. Although thousands of fledgling businessmen have taken advantage of the SBA's $4 billion-a-year loan-guarantee program, there is a surprising dearth of support for it among small...
...penetrating article about Weinberger in the Atlantic, he felt no bitterness "toward the culture of the Eastern liberal Establishment. Weinberger loved that world and considered himself a part of it." The Weinbergers have since sold their California home and purchased one on Maine's Mount Desert Island, a bastion of old-line Yankees. Daughter Arlin, a | utility employee, is a Californian; Son Cap Jr., a public relations executive who was once president of the Operation Match computer dating service, lives in Washington...