Word: blacks
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...numbed by what I saw, not because of surprise but due to disbelief. This had happened to me!--a former member of the Race Relations Advisory Committee of Harvard College, the former chairman of the Educational and Political Action Committee of the Harvard-Radcliffe Black Students Association, the person who had worked to improve race relations on my campus and who had addressed incidents of racial harassment of others to the administration. Then I looked at this within the "Big Picture." That picture contained the recently dedicated memorial to slain civil rights activists in Montgomery, Ala.; and, closer to home...
...Black junior at Harvard. I have been within these Ivy walls for over two years now and during that time I have been repeatedly judged by my skin color and not by my character. These judgments have come in the form of racial incidents, the last and most virulent of which occured last week. I had left one of my disks in the computer room of my house about a month ago. I was distressed over my loss since the disk contained many important files including my resume, cover letters to different employers and various letters to scholarship sponsors...
...oversize, matte-black headsets look like the kind of industrial-strength ear protection worn by airport baggage handlers. But these are no ordinary earmuffs. They are high-tech earphones designed for pilots of small jets and other light (and noisy) aircraft. Rather than soften the drumming engine noise with thick layers of plastic foam, the earphones eliminate it electronically. A tiny microphone samples sound waves at the wearer's ear, processes them through special circuitry and broadcasts countertones that cancel the offending sounds in midair. Result: silence, or something close...
...former president of Atlanta's predominantly black Morehouse School of Medicine, Sullivan is said to be troubled by complaints from colleagues in the scientific and medical community that pro-life hectoring from the White House has driven away some well-qualified applicants from jobs in his department. The top spots at several important HHS divisions, including the National Institutes of Health (NIH), the Centers for Disease Control and the office of the Surgeon General, have not been filled. Says a former high-ranking department official: "Disillusionment is considerable, morale is low, and options...
...photograph appeared in LIFE's Aug. 11, 1941, issue and later became a ubiquitous pinup during World War II: a surrealistically gorgeous woman partially dressed in a shimmering negligee knelt on a bed and smiled enigmatically over her bare left shoulder. Inspired by this stunning vision in black-and-white, countless G.I.s knew exactly what they were fighting for. Mom, apple pie and Rita Hayworth...