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...hands of French Indochina called it le mal jaune-a benign affliction that could turn even Paris boulevardiers into confirmed expatriates...
...addition to its investigation, the Committee must instruct its staff members and alumni recruiters to give first priority in the future to enrolling more well-qualified black applicants. Too often tradition-laced institutions like Harvard slip into an attitude of benign neglect. Such an attitude harms Harvard, not merely by its destruction of the ideal of a heterogeneous University community, but because it reflects a moral failure on the part of the school to actively combat minority oppression in the outside world. For Harvard to accept 10 per cent or fewer blacks in order to reflect the proportion of blacks...
...Camelot is now replaced by a wintry landscape where man's social ills are resolved by the simple application of euphemisms (e.g., "benign neglect"). Could it then be that the political climate not only reflects but also generates the aspirations of a given...
When Sikkim's benign and enlightened King Palden Thondup Namgyal was crowned eight years ago in Gang-tok, he offered this pledge for himself and his queen, former New York Debutante Hope Cooke: "Together may we make Sikkim a paradise on earth." Today, Indian troops patrol his capital and his dreams of paradise look dark...
...investigative journalism at its most effective, but the Sun-Times could take only part of the credit. As in many recent journalistic attacks on mismanagement or unethical practice in Chicago, the Keane story was the result of an informal alliance between newsmen and a civic group with the deceptively benign name of the Better Government Association...