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All these questions came to mind in reading Laura E. Gomez's shamefaced confession in the Crimson that she did not know how to answer "How many Hispanic professors are there at Harvard." Since I was born in New Mexico, and took an even more lofty view of those who...
The Justice Department did not acknowledge any Government misconduct, but decided against fighting the case on the ground that the evacuation program was "an unfortunate episode in our nation's history" that would best be "put behind us." U.S. District Judge Marilyn Patel pronounced the Government's mealymouthed...
I refused to register myself for military conscription in the summer of 1980, because I was not and am not prepared to kill another human being or cooperate with a system whose goal is mass murder. I have written Ronald Reagan to tell him what I have not done, and...
Toole's composure collapsed only once, while explaining how he kidnaped and beheaded six-year-old Adam Walsh in Hollywood, Fla., in the summer of 1981. Adam Walsh's disappearance from a shopping mall became a national cause celebre two years ago. It led to the passage last...
The anecdotes and opinions keep caroming like talk-show badinage on Olympus. They meet the traditional challenge of autobiography: to speak entertainingly about others while revealing as little as possible about yourself. It is the pose that best suits a movie director, whose art is by nature voyeuristic rather than...