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...Harvard Foundation deeply regret this unfortunate incident and would like to assure our students, faculty and dining hall staff that we had nothing to do with the planning or distribution of the condoms and bogus programs. We would also like to express our sincere sympathy to Dunster House for any embarrassment or displeasure this act may have cause, and we urge restraint of judgment and action on the part of the Black students and staff who feel that this incident, albeit racially insensitive, was racially motivated...
Williams says the lessons of his course have many important applications in a world where people often want to believe the fantastic findings of pseudo-scientists. There has been a long history of bogus findings in archaeology, Williams says, adding that he wants to expose the impostors for their true shallowness and focus students on the real thing...
...bottle, oenophiles who purchase the world-famous Chardonnay expect to enjoy one of the world's great wines. Now it seems that some of them would have been better off with a bottle of Chateau Toledo. Attracted by the bouquet of easy profit, wine counterfeiters have produced bogus bottles of DRC Montrachet, which have turned up in California and as far away as Tokyo...
...Jesse Helms' moral outrage that blacks should be getting rich off an outrageous giveaway from the Federal Government is oddly narrow. After all, long before it adopted minority preferences, the FCC was handing out valuable licenses practically for free on other, equally bogus criteria. After more than a half-century of this foolishness, many of America's largest fortunes derive from ownership of broadcasting franchises. Helms himself has made the odd nickel this way. In just the past few years, the awarding of cellular- telephone franchises has created a whole new category of white male multimillionaires. Reformers have long argued...
...lamenting the lack of adventurous fare on network TV. Often the plea reflects a petulant idealism. One cannot expect weekly artistic innovations on a medium that churns out thousands of hours of entertainment each year. The stress on new and different, moreover, can lead to the hyping of bogus breakthroughs. Fox's new sitcom True Colors, for example, is the first to focus on a racially mixed family, while CBS's E.A.R.T.H. Force pits a team of scientist-crime fighters against a new foe: environmental villains. But no one should mistake these shows for anything but warmed-over variations...