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...assassination of the Israeli prime minister by a right-wing, anti-Palestinian Jew was a tragic and sorrowful act. In an age where Jews and Palestinians, Bosnians and Serbs, and British and Irish have all made serious attempts to reconcile their differences to create peace, such a senseless deed comes as a shock and a travesty...
...wish every person at Harvard could have been here tonight. We would have 6,600 mitzvah projects," said Ariela M. Migdal '96. Mitzvah is the Hebrew word for good deed...
...outcry stunned Whitacre, who had seen himself as a hero. "I really believed I was doing a good deed," he says. "I thought I'd be able to fix the problem and stay with the company." Such thinking can be typical of whistle blowers. "[They] often claim to be more loyal than management to the best interests of the company," notes Columbia University professor Alan Westin, who has written a book about corporate informers...
...fact, even McCarty's modest private effort implicates the government in overt racial discrimination in several ways. It will be administered by a state university. The business contri bu tions presumably will be tax-de ductible. Above all, the Oseola McCarty Scholarship Fund--and in deed all private, so-called voluntary affirmative action--causes the govern ment to be racially biased in its po l icy toward private discrimination. The government would quickly step in to stop even a sweet old lady from setting up a whites-only scholarship fund. That would clearly violate about 18 laws, including...
Villavicencio shows the ransom note he's received to the class. Six suspects with pens, all college-aged teachers, are rounded up in the room. Villavicencio asks for advice on how to figure out who did the deed...