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Events on Saturday began with an extremely courteous debate between Jim Sleeper, author of Liberal Racism, and John Mack, president of the Los Angeles Urban League and an IOP fellow. Mack and Sleeper debated whether the United States should pursue policies that aim to elect minority candidates to office...
...Khamenei. He referred to Khatami's visit to the U.N. and to other issues, but said nothing about the Rushdie affair, which Iranian analysts interpreted as lending tacit support. The decision is a victory for Khatami. He and the hard-liners will next square off in October when Iranians elect a new Assembly of Experts, a body that has the right to select the next Supreme Leader...
...obtain whatever scarce resources Harvard has to offer. We have in many ways created for ourselves a culture that tolerates certain classes of amorality. Harvard's official selection processes are a joke--lotteries and sectioning forms are of questionable fairness and regrettable bureaucracy. You deserve your place among the elect, but the system just is not set up to recognize your virtues. So on the one hand, there is nothing wrong with a little flexibility in describing your qualifications, so long as you are not actually lying. And on the other, it is your duty to seek out every loophole...
...liked your Clinton-Yeltsin cover, but it should have been captioned "Resignees-Elect" instead of "Comrades in Trouble." CARL A. LUKACH Wilmington...
After I graduated, a number of alumni withheld contributions from Harvard and put them in an escrow fund until divestiture occurred (which turned out to be in 1990, coincidentally the year Mandela was freed and well after the crucial struggles had happened). We also petitioned to elect candidates supporting divestiture, among other things, to the Board of Overseers, and successfully elected both Gay Seidman '78, first woman president of The Crimson and an SASC activist, and Archbishop Desmond Tutu to the Overseers, much against Harvard's wishes...