Word: corrections
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Rather than question whether admitting women to final clubs would actually correct chauvinistic excesses, the staff engages in a silly harangue against "classism" and the "old-boy network." On these very issues, the staff is hardly innocent. Crimson compers surely anticipate the "well-placed connections" that semesters' worth of duty provide. In fact, dozens of students each year complete the comp process, never to return to 14 Plympton, remembering their position only around resume time. And if there is any clique at Harvard known for not dealing with "people unlike themselves," it is the staff...
Last month Joe Robinowitz, the news director, was composing a memo to the chairman of Fox Television in Los Angeles on the prospective replacement of employees who were "inept," "shallow" or "politically correct." In preparation for this task, he wrote, he had been consulting with conservative media critics, including L. Brent Bozell III, chairman of the Media Research Center, and Reed Irvine, head of Accuracy in Media. Singling out ineptitude and shallowness presumably would not have raised eyebrows, but hunting down political correctness in the company of Messrs. Bozell and Irvine was distinctly incorrect. Alas for Robinowitz, he left...
Harvard Dining Services also offers London Broil, Italian Sausage and several other geographically correct foods--even the less-well-known Kansas Medley Vegetables. One can sample the world's native fare without leaving the dining hall...
...Andersen of Time provides genuine insight by terming "Beavis and Butt-head" as perhaps "the bravest show ever run on national television." And MTV's creative director, Judy McGrath, aptly identifies the genesis of this courage: the members of the MTV generation are "sick to death of being politically correct...
...included in that definition? Those who can sign a credit-card receipt but are incapable of writing a letter when they think their bill is wrong; those who can pay the correct change at the supermarket but have difficulty calculating the difference between regular and sale prices; those who can scan a newspaper story but cannot paraphrase its contents...