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Boston is not likely to experience a racial flare-up like those in Los Angeles and Chicago, three area civil rights leaders and a State Representative from Roxbury agreed yesterday...
...What a flare for words...
James Q. Wilson, director of the Joint Center and associate professor of Government at Harvard, answers the recent flare of criticism by attributing it to "a confusion of my personal values and views with those of the organization. The Joint Center as a whole, of course, doesn't have any values, any more than Harvard as a whole has values...
...sento owners reckoned without the furious public. PEOPLE FLARE UP IN ANGER, screamed the banner headline in Tokyo's largest daily Yomiuri Shimbun; it reported that irate callers were jamming the paper's switchboard with threats to smash sento windows and protests that "They are infringing on basic human rights!" Cried Mrs. Eiko Takada, 24, mother of three: "How can we keep our babies living without bathing them at least once a day? Is the sento association trying to commit wholesale murder of babies?" Declared Mrs. Mumeo Oku, the vocal chairwoman of the Tokyo Housewives Association: "These...
Pros & Cons. Hot debate over police review boards is certain to flare up elsewhere. Last week the issue heated up in New York City as Police Commissioner Michael Murphy acidly rejected yet another demand for a review board. Police are braced for similar requests in at least a score of other U.S. cities...