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...primary opponent, state senator Jim Mack, attacked him as a Johnny-come-lately. To counter the charge, at a candidate forum, McCain offered a decidedly pointed response. "I wish I could have had the luxury, like you, of growing up and living and spending my entire life in a nice place like the first district of Arizona, but I was doing other things," he said. "As a matter of fact, when I think about it now, the place I lived longest in my life was Hanoi...
...Allen Counter, the director of the Harvard Foundation and a Harvard Medical School professor, wrote in a subsequent Crimson editorial piece that "these students felt collectively 'profiled' by race and asked the simple question, 'if fifty or more white students were engaged in similar activities would they have been approached by the police...
...Counter noted that the year before, a black professor "was stopped by HUPD in the middle of the day in Harvard Yard and forced to show his identification...
...recurrent complaint brought to our office by African-Americans students is that they are regularly stopped and asked to produce identification by HUPD and security guards while their white peers are not subjected to such scrutiny," Counter wrote...
...does the U.S. counter the bully tactics? "Defense," explains U.S. backup center Chris Bosh. It's kind of nice when your substitute big man is shooting 79% from the field, like Bosh is. "Because you play solid defense, you stay in between your man and the ball, you rebound the basketball. Now, that turns into transition points. And then, when they see the physical stuff is not working, they get a little frantic. They get worried...