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...HAVE, I must confess, serious doubts about the efficacy--or even the integrity--of the "classic" exam period editorial, "Beating the System" you reprinted recently. I almost suspect this co-called "Donald Carswell '50" of being rather one of Us--the bad guys--rather then one of you. If your graders have been following Mr. Carswell's advice for the last 11 years, then your readers have been going down the tubes. It is time to disillusion...
There is some question, in fact, whether white fear and suspicion of blacks may be higher than most will confess to pollsters. Some analysts think it is and worry about a vicious circle: white fear of black crime is so high as to lead some to excuse almost any behavior on the part of the police who are supposedly protecting them against it. That leads to verdicts like the acquittal of King's beaters, which touch off riots like those last week, which further intensify white fear. Scholars of both races express this apprehension. Says Henry Louis Gates, chairman...
...have been following the debate about the Dunster House toaster with interest, but I must confess that I don't understand what the ruckus is all about...
...confess that we ourselves do not regard such acts as intrinsically morally offensive. We confess that we do find it offensive to conceal an attack on a particular--in our view courageous, intelligent and generous-hearted--individual in an act of prayer...
...same thing would happen to them -- so they had better not join in any plots to depose him. In any case, a coup would succeed or not pretty much irrespective of what the U.S. did or failed to do. Those American officials most eager to incite a coup confess they have no idea at this point who might lead it, and thus whom to approach with money, promises of military backing or any other blandishments...