Word: dares
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...special treatment, which Ali so properly disdains as a demeaning practice, in fact occurs every year in admissions. Mansfield was quite right to ask Ali (in a March 12 letter) to extend his argument against special treatment in courses to the reality of the "benevolent white admissions officer." Few dare to challenge, or even to question, the goals of the admissions office when it grants special treatment based solely on race. Yet the logical extension of Ali's argument against special treatment would lead to the dismantling of the misguided white-benevolence machine in Byerly Hall. Unfortunately, in the realm...
...into a toilet to foil any testing for traces of explosives, a prosecutor charged at his arraignment. The other, Mohammed A. Salameh, an illegal immigrant from Jordan, had rented the van that apparently carried the bomb into the Trade Center garage. In a scene that no thriller novelist would dare dream up, Salameh was arrested as he tried to get his $400 rental deposit back...
...fact, it was pretty--dare I say it--random...
Harvard has a strict film policy, according to News Director Peter Costa. No filming of feature films in the Yard (Love Story, long ago, was a notable exception). Accordingly, With Honors, the latest from Truth or Dare director Alex P. Keshishian '86, was filmed only on the public streets around Harvard. The cops who blocked students from their destinations were Cambridge police, not Harvard police. And according to Traffic Department spokesperson David Bryant, Cambridge received only the fares for a few bagged meters in compensation for movie inconvenience...
Part of Gioia's mission, it seems, is to break the polite silence, to tell it like it is. His prose is irreverent and refreshing. How many professional writers would dare claim that "the editorial principle governing selection [for an important anthology] seems to have been the fear of leaving out some influential colleague?" Or that "one suspects that [this anthology] was never truly meant to be read, only assigned." Whether you agree or disagree with Gioia's particulars, you can't help but admire his candor...