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...Class of 1955 would have been (almost without exception) white. Protestant or Catholic, and fairly well-off. Forty years later, my Class of 1995 is vastly more diverse, with people of countless racial, ethnic and religious backgrounds, a good proportion of them from non-Western countries. I therefore must confess that I do not understand the usefulness of requiring all students to have a thorough grounding in Western Civilization. Although a white Anglo-Saxon Protestant (a definition which I see the need for only on official documents). I appreciate the opportunity to take courses like Literature and Arts...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Senior Reflects On Core Classes | 10/3/1994 | See Source »

Another activist, Michael Bray, editor of Capital Area Christian News, has written that abortion providers should be stoned to death: "With each blow . . . by the grace of God, he may confess his sins and be saved before expiring." Even some who claim to oppose justifiable homicide are notably shy about condemning the actions of Paul Hill. Says Don Treshman, president of Rescue America: "We regretted the passing of ((Dr. Britton's)) life just like a Jew in 1943 Poland who just heard Dr. Josef Mengele and his bodyguard were shot down in Auschwitz that morning...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Apologists For | 8/15/1994 | See Source »

...know their name, I found I knew many of WAR's songs. For the past thirty years this group has been together, fused with the common mission of equality, racial harmony and peace. They sang their famous, hearty rocking song "Low Rider" and the crowd went wild. I confess that I only knew this song from the movie "Dazed and Confused," and had probably never heard WAR's version of it, but I danced and reveled in it nonetheless. They played many more of their songs which I learned later on from friends have been some of their favorites since...

Author: By G. WILLIAM Winborn, | Title: BLUES FOR ZOOS | 7/22/1994 | See Source »

...after the drug treatment, Gary Ramona came to the hospital for a meeting arranged by Holly. He claims he found a daughter still groggy from the sodium amytal. Holly sleepily accused him of raping her, he said, and then Isabella and his wife Stephanie urged him to "confess" for Holly's good. The next day, Stephanie served Gary with divorce papers. Rumors of abuse reached the Robert Mondavi winery, where Ramona was a $400,000-a-year vice president. He charges that as a direct result he was dismissed within the year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dubious Memories | 5/23/1994 | See Source »

...went on to assert that "under the council's standards, a proper referendum petition should not be packed," a word to which he imputes vaguely sinister undertones, but one which I must confess I still do not understand. Once again, the "council's standards" are a week-old creation of Carey W. Gabay, in response to the petition...

Author: By Anjalee C. Davis, | Title: Boycott the U.C. Referendum | 4/20/1994 | See Source »

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