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...early 1920s, Harvard President A. Lawrence Lowell effectively banned Black students from the University by making living in the first-year dormitories mandatory. Lowell said he could not compel a white student to live with a Black student, so the Black students were forced to find other living arrangements, making them unable to enroll as first-year students. Alumni and civic leaders protested Lowell's rule and eventually Lowell rescinded...
...suit has since been dismissed, but the charges live on, putting the city in an uproar and prompting a new look at racism in baseball. Atlanta Braves executive Hank Aaron called for an investigation. The N.A.A.C.P. hopes to use the controversy to compel Schott to hire more minorities; of 45 front-office staff, only one Red is black. Jesse Jackson has talked with Schott and wants to discuss hiring practices with other baseball-team owners as well...
Right now it is impractical and unrealistic to compel nations to supply troops for offensive action in Somalia, such as the Gulf War. Yet it seems reasonable to require that all members contribute to humanitarian efforts...
...morally wrong for the state, which has been entrusted with a monopoly on the legal use of force to compel citizen A to deal with citizen B, if A doesn't want...
...Serb, turned up hysterical and penniless in Belgrade last week with her three-year-old son, having fled the Bosnian village of Kastilj. Her husband, a member of a militia protecting the self-proclaimed Serbian state within Bosnia, had told her, "Just get out, go anywhere." She tried to compel her 13-year-old son to leave with her, but he refused. "If Father is killed here," the boy said, "I want to die with him." Just recounting that story reduces the woman to tears...