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...decade-long offensive against campus liberalism, the staff of the independent student weekly Dartmouth Review has managed to offend women, blacks, Native Americans and homosexuals. Last week, on the eve of Yom Kippur, the Review sank to a new low by printing Hitler's boast that "by warding off the Jews, I am fighting for the Lord's work." The Dartmouth campus erupted with indignation. Though editor in chief Kevin Pritchett claimed that some unidentified culprit had sneaked the quote into print, the Review's president and two other staff members quit. Outraged students supported by faculty members organized...
Professor of History Charles S. Maier '60, on the eve of German unification...
...president of the Dartmouth Review resigned yesterday morning following the appearance of an anti-semitic quote from Hitler's Mein Kampf next to the journal's credo on the cover of the issue published last Friday, the eve of the Jewish holiday Yom Kippur...
Bloom admits that a feminine J is supposition. Among his arguments: Genesis contains the only known account from the ancient Middle East of the creation of woman -- six times as long as the story of Adam's advent from a "mud pie." Furthermore, the women of the Pentateuch (Eve, Sarah, Rebecca, Rachel, Tamar, Zipporah) are strong; none of the men (Abraham, Jacob, Moses) are particularly good looking. Circumstantial evidence, but in an era of enhanced interest in feminist creativity, it is not very hypothetical to assume that Bloom's work will draw a wide and interested audience...
...December 1986 Larry Mizel held a glitzy black-tie New Year's Eve party for his staff that was dubbed "resurrection night." Milken had raised more than $500 million for M.D.C. that year by floating a junk issue; a series of tricky swaps of land and debt with Silverado had swelled the apparent assets and profits of both companies; and Bush had been brought aboard at Silverado. The future seemed bright...