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...their kinship network or are not among their blood relatives at all. To forge these links slaves may have been obliged to lay low for a century--the Gutman report obviously places family concern above class militancy--but the life that slaves made on the sly can now bolster faith in black cultural courage, resilience and craftiness. Exslave Robert Smalls undermined the acuity of "assimilation" theories back in 1863 when he told a white interviewer, "No sir, one life they show the masters and another they...
...hardship endured by the families harboring hard-core gamblers has fostered two G.A. offshoots, Gam-Anon for addicts' spouses and Gam-A-Teen for their children. Gam-A-Teen sponsors weekly meetings where children as young as nine bolster one another emotionally concerning their parents' plight...
Harvard countered the Fiat's Jackson-Harrell combination with some clean outside shooting by Bob Hooft, Jonas Honick and Jeff Hill. Center Seven Irion, who poured in 19 points from the inside, helped bolster the Crimson offense...
...should consider a cutback in aid or in U.S. security forces there. Carter also feels that the U.S. has a moral obligation to do significantly more than it has to help underdeveloped countries and to participate in what could be very costly international commodity agreements to bolster the economies of such countries...
Anxious to bolster Harvard's sense of independence, Robert H. Ebert, dean of the Med School, last year focused his annual report on the costs and benefits of health manpower legislation. "The internal life of every institution is marked, for better or for worse, by events which take place externally," Ebert began. Although he was painfully aware that 58 per cent of Harvard's budget was support from the government, Ebert sought ways to preserve what he termed "the integrity of the educational system" in the face of increasing governmental interference. "If it ever got to the point where...