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...Working at Harvard is an important opportunity to act on the values many of us held dear in '60s," says Dean of Admissions and Financial Aid William R. Fitzsimmons...
First, while good intentions might seem like an admirable thing to have, the phrase also conjures up an image of woolly-minded naivete. Those dear old liberals, sitting in their ivory-tower rocking chairs, knitting vast social- welfare blankets from skeins of good intentions and taxpayer money -- What do they know about the real world? The implication is that good intentions are not merely insufficient but even detrimental to the hard business of facing up to the hard truths about poverty and race. Good intentions are for sissies...
...Vice President's attack on a fictional TV character is only the most blatant attempt by the White House to highlight issues dear to conservatives. Fearful of mouthing Quayle's controversial line, Bush will instead continue to sound law-and-order themes in the wake of the Los Angeles riots and will appease conservatives by vetoing a measure this week that lifts a four-year ban on federal fetal-tissue research. While such stands may not please a majority of American voters, Bush is not playing to the majority anymore. "The Murphy Brown thing is a big winner...
...June. It was too late. On April 29, 3 1/2 hours after the verdict in the King case was announced, Gates left his office at about 6:30 p.m. to drive 11 miles to attend a small political fund raiser in affluent Brentwood. The cause was dear to his heart: opposition to a Los Angeles ballot measure that would, at last, make the police chief more accountable to elected officials. Even though Gates claimed he was at the fund raiser for just five minutes (it was closer to 20) and was in communication with commanders via radio and cellular phone...
...American Dietetic Association, "will not solve world hunger, and it isn't going to save our planet." The environmental cost of beef is just one aspect of the multiplying burdens of producing food for an exploding human population. The real threat to the carrying capacity of planet Earth, dear Jeremy, comes not from our cattle but from ourselves...