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...However, during that spring, there were days when maximum capacity was exceeded twofold. They were jostled, pulled, pushed and misunderstood. There is the story of the Jew who cried out "Shoyn fargessen!" -- already forgotten -- only to have his name set down upon his documents as Sean Ferguson...
What do they do for fun? "We've perfected the art of hanging out," they say. Their roommate, Jeff Ferguson, founder of the Boston chapter of the Guardian Angels, introduced them to many of his co-workers, who now "hang out" in their Leverett room...
...business world, journalism is moderating its ways. Notes Associate Editor J.D. Reed, who wrote the story on America's changing drinking habits: "The situation has reversed. People see alcohol not as part of their career but as something that could conceivably mess it up." San Francisco Reporter Jane Ferguson realized how much journalism had changed when she and two colleagues raised their glasses at lunch to toast another writer. Says she: "What was in our glasses? Bottled mineral water. Not a drop of alcohol for any of us." Washington Reporter Susan Schindehette also finds abstemiousness among her sources...
Five panelist--Jackie Cooke, a graduate student in government; Jeffrey Ferguson '85 of Leverett House, Ronald Roach '85 of Quincy House, Johnson and government graduate student Sheree Queen-Bryant-presented their views of what the Black intellectual could glean from Cruse...
Almost ninety years ago, Justice John Marshall Harlan wrote a prophetic dissent to the Supreme Court decision in Plessy V. Ferguson, upholding state-imposed segregation in the United States Harlan condemned mandated segregation as "inconsistent not only with that equality of rights which pertains to citizenship, but with the personal liberty enjoyed by everyone in the United States....The destinies of the races in this country are indissolubly linked together, and the common government of all shall not permit the seeds of race hate to be placed under the sanction of law." The spirit of Harlan's dissent underlies...