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...early last year, however, the National Security Agency picked up intercepts of provocative communications among Chinese officials. They included discussions of a covert operation aimed at influencing the 1996 elections. Other intercepts indicated that front companies for the Chinese government might try to funnel cash. A few months later the NSA took its information to the FBI, which began a probe. Of the six U.S. lawmakers who emerged as major targets, four were from California, where the business community began courting the Chinese soon after Richard Nixon renewed ties in 1972. Democratic Senators Dianne Feinstein and Barbara Boxer are longtime...
...Covert or overt attempts to attack this culture, whether through staffing witch-hunts, funding priorities or political tactics, are deplorable, particularly on the part of those who deem themselves educators. Insulting students and staff to their colleagues in private, presenting different faces to many audiences and excluding those who know the most about service from the essential decisions disrespects the very ideals of service. The Assistant Dean should recognize the strengths of this culture, celebrate them and partake in possibilities they afford--or she should leave...
...outgoing officers wrote, "covert or overt attempts to attack this culture, either through staffing witch-hunts, funding priorities or political tactics are deplorable...
...Dartboard wonder if some larger motivation is really behind the University's consulting proclivity. After all, many of these consultants are likely to be Harvard graduates. Kathleen I. Kouril graduated from this very institution in 1982. Are these hirings part of some covert Office of Career Services program...
...that those who want differences treated with equality are pursuing what should be the American ideal. Krauthammer's most glaring omission, however, is his failure to propose any alternative to eliminating racial discrimination in the workplace. Declaring that such discrimination is illegal naively assumes that the institutionalized and dangerously covert racist attitudes that made affirmative action necessary in the first place can be legislated away. It fails to ask the bottom-line question, Who has the power here? DANIEL A. MILLS Portland, Oregon