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Even before the Democrats select a new party chairman to succeed Paul Kirk in January, Jackson is almost certain to stake his claim as the spiritual leader of the party and its presidential nominee in 1992. He comes out of this campaign with an army of loyalists in every key state, a fund-raising list containing nearly 200,000 names that is the envy of his rivals and a peripatetic speaking schedule that will keep him highly visible. But to solidify his position, Jackson is keenly aware that he must quickly move away from the polarizing postures of the past...
Dowling has another claim to notoriety: as the model for the super-jock B.D. in the "Doonesbury" comic strip, by his schoolmate Garry Trudeau. "It's a sort of immortality," Dowling said...
What does it all mean? Prascak defies his audience to find any meaning, which seems to be part of the point. Despite Prascak's claim that the principle behind his direction is "what the fuck," the play is far from random, but it avoids such conventions as plot and character development. This is confrontational theater, not for the faint of heart or the closed-minded. Though the show is little more than an hour long, few theatergoers would be willing to withstand more than a few minutes of it, even under alcoholic sedation...
...University's affirmative action report also claims that on the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, no recruitment of minority faculty members is needed because their presence at all levels already exceeds the figures for the availability of minority scholars. How the administration can make such a blatantly deceptive claim despite strong student outcry for increased minority representation on the Faculty of Arts and Sciences is a mystery, especially given its history of ineffective and discriminatory hiring practices. This seemingly incongruous claim represents another example of the University's manipulation or disregard of evidence in the service of its politics...
...many cases, that claim is true. But Harvard has seen to it that section sizes--a key determinant of section quality--are pegged more to fiscal and administrative expediency than to grander visions of educational excellence...