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...David Bruck points out in a recent New Republic article on the subject of the death penalty, this sort of racial discrimination cannot be discerned by a mere glance at our death row population Because murder in America is, for the most part, "segregated"--e.g. whites usually kill whites and Blacks usually kill Blacks--the effects of offender victim discrimination tend to cancel each other out, and the percentage of death row inmates who are Black thus seems to correspond to the percentage of those arrested for homicide who are Black...
Behind the faculty's decisions lay student pressure. For many, there seemed an almost desperate need to inform individuals about the history of ROTC. An article by Crimson editor David I. Bruck detailing the growth of ROTC on Harvard's campus appeared four times in two years. Students felt ROTC had gone beyond being a partiotic symbol of serving your country while going through college: as Bruck noted, ROTC was increasingly designed to recent college students for lifetime military careers. The idea of ROTC being used to fortify a civilian army therefore seemed untenable. Since ROTC's recruiting efforts were...
...that may change. As the Winter Olympics got under way in Inns bruck last week, competitors from these two obscure sports put America well up in the medal rankings with performances that were the talk of the Tyrol...
...pose as peacemaker: "He thinks he's Mahatma Nixon, a man in a loin cloth." But later, Stone, the self-proclaimed "counterrevolutionary," wonders aloud before a student audience whether youthful revolutionary fervor might not be the product of unresolved adolescent crises. Without criticizing Stone's published work in depth, Bruck at least does justice to his subject's conflicting impulses...
...Bruck's Stone emerges a hero, but not the idol of any one party. Heroic for his honesty, independence, and moral strength, he is cheered by demonstrators, applauded at an academic convocation. The film seems to show that however people interpret Stone's political goals, he is finally respected universally for his drive and integrity. It is impossible to deny the justice of the portrait; Stone is a militantly honest...