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Your November 5th story "Mavens Loses Koser Rating" was by and large accurate, but one critically important point apparently did not come through, given the comment made by Elie Z. Fishman '92 (reported to echo "the sentiments of his Orthodox peers"). Mr. Fishman says that "by not keeping [Mavens] open to all sectors of the Jewish community, even if it's in the interest of profit, they're betraying the people it was originally designed...
There is merit to this argument, but American elections are never quite the low-risk Tweedledee-vs.-Tweedledum contests they sometimes appear to be. It is sobering to recall that even the landmark struggle between Kennedy and Nixon was once widely belittled as an echo, not a choice. As Kennedy partisan Arthur Schlesinger Jr. wrote at the time, "The favorite cliche of 1960 is that the candidates . . . are essentially the same sort of men, stamped from the same mold, committed to the same values, dedicated to the same objectives...
...Harvard, wrapped up in three-and-a-half centuries of tradition, times never seem to change. For just last week, Professor of Law Derrick A. Bell issued a similar report documenting that Blacks only occupy 1.8 percent of Harvard's tenured slots. Does anyone hear an echo...
...Bush is virtually interchangeable. Both candidates shun the word Underclass; neither accepts the word's implication that there are Americans who cannot even reach the first rung of the economic ladder. Such linguistic prissiness and ideological timidity make addressing the problem even more difficult. As for solutions, the candidates echo each other. Bush: "A job in the private sector is the best antipoverty program that has ever been invented." Dukakis: "Full employment is the most important human-services program we have...
...such problem for the Chiefs. For a week their tenor and baritone have been battling colds. The tenor popped antibiotics and hunkered in a sauna. Maybe the lack of hard practice helps. In gray tuxes, they captivate the crowd with a medley of lilting love songs. Vowels echo rich and uniform down the darkened rows of fellow singers. Their voices have caught the elusive bird, and the overtone rings clear and shrill. Afterward, as they pace backstage awaiting results, someone is afraid that they missed the real essence. The judges disagree and give them first prize...