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...discussed in professor Mary Water's essay in the 1995 Race Relations Handbook, that a black student's primary role at Harvard is to be on display for the white students? In other words, is Harvard doing this so that in 20 years from now, white students can boast to their friends that they lived next to a black person in college...
While on retainer to Madison, the Rose firm had taken on sporadic assignments. Probably the most significant was a 1985 purchase by Madison Financial of a large tract of land destined to become Madison's Castle Grande real estate development. Among other amenities, Castle Grande was going to boast a microbrewery, prompting research by Rose into whether a brewery could operate in a dry township. But a bigger problem was that a regulation of the Arkansas savings and loan board prohibited Madison Financial from buying the entire Castle Grande tract because, as a subsidiary of Madison Guaranty, it could hold...
...Allen lacks in in clarinet technique he makes up in sheer energy and passion. He goes for what he calls a "crude" sound, based on the styles of New Orleans legends like George Lewis, Albert Burbank and Sidney Bechet. Give him an A for authenticity. Few players today can boast such a powerful tone. That's due partly to his use of an extremely hard reed (Rico No. 5, about one step down from a roof shingle) and partly to his penchant for the now obsolete Albert system of keys and fingerings, favored by all the old-timers. When Woody...
...increase them only once. In place of the huge deficit, there was a $300 million surplus. Engler forged on with an intensive welfare-to-work program that he claims has found jobs for 30% of the recipients. Critics have called that number incomplete and misleading. But Engler's boast of having saved $100 million on welfare reform became his national calling card. As the state's economy improved further, he declared, "The rust belt is history." In a breathtaking political resurrection, he was re-elected in 1994 with 61% of the vote, having turned Michigan from the mightiest bastion...
Even against this smothering Princeton defense, Harvard played the game extremely close by putting up a fine defensive effort of its own. The Crimson boast the nation's seventh ranked defense, and the team does so by forcing the other team out of its game...