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EVERY DAY AT HARVARD, the future leaders of this country's communities take classes together, share rooms together, sit across from one another in the dining hall. Cooped up in the ivory tower, we are not forced to confront the real-life dilemmas of communities in conflict. The prospect of the events of Crown Heights being transferred to Harvard Yard is unimaginable...
...from a particular anecdote involving Harvard historian Stephan Thernstrom. According to Dinesh D' Souza, author of Illiberal Education, the anti-pc manifesto, three Black students charged Thernstrom with racial insensitivity in his use of slave owners' journals in teaching American history. The students, as the story goes, did not confront Thernstrom, but rather went to the administration and to The Crimson. Thernstrom, without a chance to defend himself, was branded a racist. But in this week's Nation, Jon Wiener claims to present "What Really Happened at Harvard," alleging that D' Souza distorted the facts of the case...
...agrees to discontinue all its efforts against Judge Thomas." Thus far, that has been a mostly fitful effort at best, but Brown and Bozell appeared to see the flag of revolution rising above it. "Unfortunately," the two men declared in a written statement, "the Administration has no desire to confront the radical left...
...debate unfolds, both the traditional and progressive approaches are likely to roll along side by side -- and rightly so, since teaching about sexual behavior in a moral vacuum would not serve young people well, any more than ignoring the practical pressures to experiment with sex and drugs that they confront each day. Any AIDS education should be coupled with programs about drug and alcohol abuse, in order to address all the risk factors that intertwine. School is by no means the only, or even always the best, place for this to happen. In Columbia, S.C., a beauty-shop owner named...
Even if Yeltsin and Gorbachev learn to work well together, they confront enormous tasks. The problems that preceded the coup -- economic decline, government deadlock, systemic decay -- are still there. At the top of the agenda is the immediate need to purge the current leadership of coup plotters, accomplices and sympathizers. It was clear last week that the country has no patience for continuing any of these men in office, yet there is a need for expertise and experience for the rebuilding that must get under way. But it is all happening faster and more roughly than many can handle...