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...circulation. It went to three other White House assistants, four Cabinet members, and no fewer than 25 copies circulated around HEW, where, Moynihan suspects, the leak occurred. Reaction from liberals was swift. Twenty-one civil rights leaders made a highly emotional public reply, complaining that the memo was a "flagrant and shameful political document." It all depended on how the memo was read: it was, after all, written in the context of White House infighting; it could easily be interpreted as a slightly veiled attack on the conservatives in the Administration, especially John Mitchell: "At the risk of indiscretion...
...quite sure, it occurred to me that Harvard hockey coach Cooney Weiland must have called himself Doctor a few times on the way back from Ithaca two nights ago. Because now that B.C. has blown three straight hockey games, and five of its last six, only a flagrant misplay of its cards will deprive Harvard of the home-ice advantage in next month's ECAC playoffs. And the Crimson's first opponent there will be... Boston College. Call Harvard Doctor...
Closet queen is a broad term covering a multitude of forms of defense, self-hatred, lack of strength, and habit. We are all closet queens in some ways, and all of us had to come out-very few of us were "flagrant" at the age of seven! We must afford our brothers and sisters the same patience we afforded ourselves. And while their closet queencry is part of our oppression. it's more a part of theirs. They alone can decide when...
...until several days later did the Dean actually offer Hartman the opportunity to remain as UFS director. Additional funds apparently were found, for no more was said about firing the rest of the staff. This incident constitutes a flagrant example of the way that the UFS itself, as well as its projects, is "supported" for some public relations purposes and condemned for others...
Unless the CRIMSON or someone makes this issue clear and raises a cry about it, a flagrant ex post facto action is likely to pass unnoticed. The Gazette, it might be noted did not mention this particular Faculty action...