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...remain a matter of black and white. Virginia, once a bastion of segregation, seems an unlikely setting for a brand of biracial coalition that could break the depressing pattern of color-bound voting. Yet if Doug Wilder wins the governorship, the old bugaboo of racial politics will have been dealt a severe blow...
Other changes--not directly linked to the student uprising--forced Harvard to reevaluate the way it dealt with the community. In 1970, the city enacted its current rent control law--designed to put an end to the practice of landlords splitting up apartments and to provide low-cost housing for the city's residents...
...that respect, CFE is different from its variously initialed cousins SALT, START and INF, which dealt with the arsenals of Armageddon: missiles and bombs that are too unconventional to use. The control of nuclear arms is part of the larger, thoroughly laudable, but often abstract exercise of fine-tuning the balance of terror so as to make it a bit more balanced and a bit less terrible. CFE, by contrast, deals with real weapons, things that actually hurt people: a tank that can crush bodies on a town square; high explosives not measured in kilotons but still able to destroy...
Captain Lane MacDonald is Harvard's big pro prospect of the moment. Drafted in the third round by the Calgary Flames in 1985, MacDonald had his rights dealt to the Hartford Whalers last year...
...only thing clear about the whole affair is that by jumping rashly into the fray, Defeat Homophobia dealt its cause a worse blow than any vicious homophobe could have dared hope. Worse, what followed the incident seems to many to be a concerted effort by Defeat Homophobia and a prominent group of Mather students to obscure the issue, and to prevent discussion of the actual incident around which they had built their publicity machine...