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...homogeneous, but randomization is in the interest of the future generations. It is healthier to be in an entryway that is racially diverse than in one that is not, because in the real world people of all kinds have to interact with each other all the time. Why deliberately foster more tension by creating two separate worlds in a community that supposedly thrives on diversity...
...find blacks sitting in one area and whites in another. The civil rights acts of the 1960s and the movement that fueled them were attempts at integration. Maybe the message college students are sending is that that effort failed, that a primarily white society has not been able to foster an inviting atmosphere. Blacks and whites may be choosing to separate from one another because, as society stands now, their worlds are too far apart to integrate. But just because voluntary segregation is the norm does not mean Harvard should encourage...
...JULY 1993, DEPUTY WHITE HOUSE counsel Vincent Foster wrote an anguished lament: "I was not meant for the job or the spotlight of public life in Washington. Here ruining people is considered sport." Nine days later, Foster was dead. Shock at the apparent suicide of one of President Clinton's top aides turned to mystery, then suspicion, as the White House became entangled in an ever widening net of questions. Among the confidential matters Foster was working on when he died was the Clintons' investment in Whitewater, an Arkansas land development launched in 1978 with the Clintons' partners...
Conspiracy theories circulated almost immediately, alleging that Foster was murdered because he knew too much. And the Whitewater affair, a minor footnote to the 1992 presidential campaign, was suddenly resurrected in the national media. To a degree that seemed to leave them stunned and at times depressed, the President and First Lady have been buffeted by allegations of scandal, conspiracy and cover...
...China fears the precedent this election will set," said Lee. "Coercion and intimidation by China will not bring Taiwan to its knees. Military action will only foster more anti-China sentiment...