Word: filled
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Macintosh, for instance, some programs add new extensions to the System Folder. While an extension by itself is a small file, each one is run by the system at startup, forcing users to wait impatiently while several rows of icons fill the "Welcome to Macintosh" screen...
Much of the other components of the handbook seem like they were added mainly to fill space. For example, the names of every instructor or administrator who claims to be interested in "race issues" are listed. There is also a list of "audio-visual resources" which includes films such as "Shaft" and "Superfly." While blaxploitation movies may be an underappreciated genre, we do not think that they have much of a connection to campus race relations...
...support of the HUCTW or any other union. Harvard College in particular has had a good relationship with the HUCTW and hopes to continue to do so. Dean Kidd has assured me that there is no plan for reducing the number of staff; indeed she is actively working to fill the position of Public Service Program Administrator so that the number of staff will be the same on July 1 as it was before she assumed her position. Should any staff restructuring take place it will be in response to our commitment to improve the support of student programs...
Thus, the talented black inner-city resident who lacks access to "the good ol' boy network" plays by the rules and loses. Even in neighborhoods with ample job opportunities, like Chicago's West Side, blacks are the last ones hired to fill vacant positions. "It's not where you live in relation to the job," says Wiener Professor of Public Policy David T. Ellwood '75. "It's where you live in relation to your employer...
There's no doubt that we should all vote, of course. It's not such a big burden for energetic college students to fill out an absentee ballot or trudge over to the polls. But voting alone, particularly if it's for a losing cause, does not--for me at least--appease that feeling of hopelessness, of standing idly by and watching America go down the tubes. So what can we do during those 1,455 or so days when we're not voting? Work on a political campaign? Perhaps. But I think there are plenty of more direct ways...