Word: failings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...appointed Head of the Joint Chiefs. Think about that for a second--what it must be like to be the first Black anything in this country. Whether you're the first Black big league ballplayer or the first Black Harvard student, everyone is waiting for you to fail somehow so they can say, "See, we knew you'd fail. You were the first...and you'll be the last...
...some "mistake." We hope it isn't usual practice for the University to respond three months later to complaints of racism. And we hope it isn't usual practice for Harvard lawyers like Taylor to fail to inform managers like Berry of complaints of racism. According to official statements by Harvard, Berry didn't learn about the complaint to MCAD until months after it was made...
...July 1, federal funding will be removed from schools that fail to have a clear policy on sexual assault and rape prevention and education, said Laura X, director of the National Clearinghouse on Marital and Date Rape, based in Berkeley, Calif...
...depends upon it. Never has this irony been more evident than by the choice of an African-American general with a spectacular military career who has become one of the primary speakers against social progress. I am sure that General Powell means well, most people do. But can he fail to see that he would not be in a position to be invited to speak at Harvard were it not for those who fought to change the racist policies of the military in the 1940s? Can he fail to see that intolerance and resistance to social change causes real...
Although many of the University's schools have individual Latino groups, often they fail to join together for shared causes, said alliance organizer and Education School student Valentina C. Hernandez...