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Mansfield want to "stomp out" the Strategic Offense Society for pointing out the racism that he would like to cloak in the form of jokes. We're hurting his image. Although bigotry is omnipresent, blatant forms are unacceptable causes an openly racist person is subject to social condemnation. Why does Mansfield fit in so well here at Harvard? Because he has mastered the paradoxical art of being a bigot while arguing from an institutionally supported "intellectual" position. Henry Louis Gates and A. Leon Higginbotham have noted that The Bell Curve proves that it is not the uneducated racist...
...blank check. I turned it over and wrote my phone number on the back. "I've got to go now--but I'll be in touch," she rasped, leaving the brown-stone. In an effort to gain a favor for my consultant friends, I had just given a cloak-and-dagger stranger a blank check...
What is clear is the likely effect of a balanced budget requirement on U.S. social programs. Given the public's exaggerated antipathy towards taxes, the imperative to balance the budget will cripple liberal constituencies across the board. Such a constitutional amendment is designed to cloak the discretionary in the guise of the necessary, to justify otherwise indefensible roll-backs of governmental responsibility. And it provides cover for changing even more rules of the political process in order to guarantee continued Republican ascendancy...
...meetings everywhere--in church basements, on campuses and in hospitals and prisons--certain basic principles hold. Under a cloak of strict anonymity the "drunk," to use a popular A.A. word, often admits his alcoholism before the group, acknowledging that alcoholism is a disease for which abstinence is the only answer. Most adherents also believe they will never recover but instead will always be "in recovery." Though many who feel they have been saved by A.A. cannot explain exactly how or why it works, they do believe they stay sober by helping others stay sober...
...learned to cloak self-interest in moralargument and utilize rigidity to keep ambivalenceat bay," said Levine, who served as a navymidshipman in the Gulf of Tonkin...