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...matter is, whites are superior. They are not superior because they are born superior. They are superior because they have been the ruling power, that God has permitted them to rule. They have had the wisdom and the guidance to rule while most of the dark world or the darker people of the world have been, as they have called it, asleep...
Raza's role on campus also provoked discussion last night. Navarette's recently published book, A Darker Shade of Crimson: Odyssey of a Harvard chicano, criticizes Raza as ineffective and internally conflicted during his stay at Harvard...
...slider Bethany Calcaterra-McMahon collided with him on a track in Winterberg, Germany, after he failed to hear the "all-clear" signal that indicated she had started her race. He, of course, will never be the same; perhaps neither will she. German and American lugers had another, even darker, intersection last October, when skinheads beat up medal hopeful Duncan Kennedy, who intervened in a barroom incident to protect teammate Robert Pipkins, a target because he is black. Athletes may appear to lead charmed lives, at least in triumph. But an athlete is always a citizen of the larger world, vulnerable...
Chekhov would have appreciated this production of his classic, which emphasizes the script's comic elements. He always insisted the play was a comedy, despite the preponderance of productions that yearned for political implications and darker meanings. The A.R.T.'s Cheery Orchard depicts the passage of an age in the sunlight of a dreamlike afternoon...
...there is a darker, more problematic side. A male friend last spring mentioned to me that he heard the sounds of women chanting as they made their way from the MAC quadrangle up to the Quad, passing through the Cambridge Commons. Sitting in a section in one of the Yard classrooms, he admitted to feeling overwhelmed--and frightened--by the chorus of female voices...