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...people go to baseball games to see power, not precision. It wasn't exciting to watch shortstop Cal Ripken, Jr. earn a record .996 fielding percentage with only three errors in 1990. Nope. Not exciting. But watching Ripken and the Orioles play all season can be downright poetic. Scoff, cite statistics about "better" teams until you're blue in the face. You're probably right. Baltimore's record in recent years has been dismal...
Counter and Reid claim that The Crimson "frequently cites the Harvard-Radcliffe Hillel, a Jewish students organization, as one of the student groups that is dissatisfied with the [Harvard] Foundation's work." They cite as proof Crimson stories regarding Hillel's supposed "protest" of Foundation support for Noam Chomsky and its complaint regarding rap star Chuck...
...Some students who work closely with the Foundation have expressed the view that The Crimson's editorial and articles were not designed to enlighten but rather to discredit the Harvard Foundation for its lack of involvement in The Crimson's racial agenda. For example, students cite the Harvard Foundation's for its lack of involvement in The Crimson group's recent hostilities with a Black City University of New York [CUNY] professor over his political beliefs...
This is certainly true. But Counter and Reid take a statement about how both Jews and Blacks face marginalization, quote it out of context, pronounce it unhelpful and cite it as a Jewish statement that harms Black-Jewish relations. They reduce Black-Jewish tensions to a single statement by one Jewish student. Essentially, they blame such tensions on Jews alone. And who are counter and Reid to dismiss a Jewish student's apparently heartfelt discomfort as "not promot[ing] further discussion...
Some students who work closely with the Foundation have expressed the view that the Crimson's editorial and articles were not designed to enlighten but rather to discredit the Harvard Foundation for its lack of involvement in the Crimson's racial agenda. For example, students cite the Harvard Foundation's refusal to be dragged into the Crimson group's recent hostilities with a Black City University of New York [CUNY] professor over his political beliefs...