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...Klerk, wary of the A.N.C.'s long-standing association with Communism, also wants a constitutional provision for a "market-oriented economic system." The A.N.C. opposes the provision but denies it is wedded to a plan for blanket nationalization of South Africa's biggest corporations. "There is nothing in the thinking of the A.N.C. that says we must nationalize," says Thabo Mbeki, one of the group's chief negotiators...
...good. Blanket cuts in capital gains taxes raise corporate profits and executive salaries, not the GNP. Clinton would target capital gains tax cuts only for original investment, thereby encouraging firms to restructure and retrain employees for light manufacturing and technology--the areas in which the U.S. is most competitive...
...anti-Jeffries rally isn't denouncing the man in public, I don't know what is. Is calling the man a disgrace during a dining hall conversation (as did one Black woman I spoke to) not public enough? What could have motivated The Crimson to carry an irresponsible blanket statement about Black Harvard students...
...think it's vitally important that we be honest and accurate in our criticism of Jeffries. Blanket generalizations about Harvard Blacks, misrepresentations of Wednesday's speech and clumsy hectoring will only help him and all the others who want to drive a wedge between Black and White. Jadran...
Though Jeffries did not know I was Jewish at the time of the interview, he did expect me to write a blanket endorsement for him because I am Black. Jeffries assaulted me and had his bodyguard steal from me when he figured out that wasn't the case. There have been numerous newspaper reports of Blacks being intimidated by his thugs at his school, CUNY. This man ought to be in jail, not at Harvard...