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In as school that is as "enlightened" as Harvard claims to be, it is deeply disturbing that its main student newspaper would publish racially demeaning and ignorant pieces on a regular basis. Any article that portrays Asian-Americans as slanty-eyed, socially inept caricatures would immediately receive a barrage of...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Letters | 4/18/2000 | See Source »

But the violence we dont know how to confront is the violence of exclusion-the violence of a system that forbids its brightest students from studying what they love, that purposefully works its most promising talents to the point of exhaustion and despair. It is a subtle, unspoken, cold kind...

Author: By David Kornhaber, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Murder in the Academy | 4/14/2000 | See Source »

U.S. labor plays a leading role in the Seattle movement, and its involvement may be as much enlightened self-interest as selfless solidarity of labor. They're making the trade deal with China to permit its entry in the WTO (currently on Capitol Hill) the focus of their Washington activities...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Story Behind the Washington Protests | 4/14/2000 | See Source »

Before the Supreme Court's 1954 decision on Brown v. Board of Education, the idea of maintaining "separate but equal" facilities for different groups (generally blacks and whites) was widely accepted, especially in the South. ACLU officials found Parkwood's idea of separate classrooms a bit too reminiscent of a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How Racist History Ended a School Experiment | 4/6/2000 | See Source »

You discussed the work of our company in your story "Make Way for Frankenfish!" While the article was balanced, the headline was inflammatory. The word Frankenfood and its derivatives were coined by those avowedly opposed to any application of the new technology to food products. The use of prejudicial words...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Mar. 27, 2000 | 3/27/2000 | See Source »

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