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...Until the University recognizes the foremost priority of addressing the concerns and needs of Third World students, we cannot support endeavors such as the race relations Foundation," she said...
Rubentstein documents how the freedom of expressions came to be the first and foremost human rights. The publication of literary works abroad brought seven years of labor for Yuri Daniel and Andrei Sinyaksy in 1965, prompting the first public demonstrations for human rights in Soviet history. Such actions then continued; in 1966 a literary work was used for the first time as evidence in court against its writer; in 1968 the first person was arrested for distributing letters in defense of prisoners of conscience, in 1972 the first attempt was made to discredit the movement rather than individual remarks...
...Secretaries of State, War and Treasury, Attorney General and Postmaster General, and several of these, notably Jefferson and Hamilton, saw themselves as future Presidents. Today the Cabinet numbers 17, and, as with the White House staff, several unnecessarily represent the demands of special interests for special attention (the foremost example, the Department of Education, was created mainly because teachers' unions wanted it). Since it is an iron law that committees lose effectiveness in inverse ratio to their size, the Cabinet's growth has helped turn it into a show-and-tell group that has little collective authority...
...From her roots in the state's unique reform "machine," she learned a healthy respect for citizens' wishes and a pugnacious dedication to getting things done. When she became the nation's first woman governor elected in her own right, she proclaimed, with characteristic honesty, the victory first and foremost for the working people of the state and, in her six years in the statehouse, sought always to justify their confidence...
Never having attended college, the German composer shows his anti-elitism in his most popular orchestral work. Moreover, the overture came as Brahms' response to Breslau's tag for him--"the foremost composer of serious music today": the songs were about wine, women and sport. The last tune before the recapitulation, for example, is Fuchslied (Fox Hunt), played by two choppy bassoons imitating the way freshmen used to sing it. The piece ends with Gaudeamus Igitur, the most popular of student songs, probably still sung by most members of the Fly Club: "Let us rejoice when we are young...