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What this means for non-minorities is that Harvard remains primarily a school for children of the middle and upper-middle classes. What it means for minorities is a legacy that conveniently overlooks those who experience first-hand the harshest problems of minority life in America, and those best equipped to understand it. This legacy harms both those minorities unable to gain admission, as well the Harvard students unable to gain from a more diverse body of experience...
Having so many types of plants together in one place provides students from all over Boston and New England with an opportunity to study botanic specimens first-hand. For the past six years, the arboretum has run programs with Boston and Cambridge public schools that teach plant and tree identification to grade school students...
Dennis DeConcini (D-Ariz.) commented just hours after President Bush insisted that "not one" senator had first-hand evidence that Tower had a drinking problem...
Bush, in a session earlier yesterday with White House reporters, repeated his insistence that no senators had first-hand information that Tower was hampered by a drinking problem...
...haven't had one single senator--not one--[who] served with him over the years, say, `I have seen him. My first-hand evidence is this man is ineligible because of his consumption of spirits,'" Bush said...