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...begin instead by considering why you should spend $29.95 (plus tax, unless you can convince the Harvard Bookstore you're using it for a course) on this overgrown puppy of a book. Why shouldn't you invest your hard-earned money in, say, a five-month subscription to the Fruit-of-the-Month Club...
...goals and timetables are not quotas. It is entirely possible that an institution could produce a plan, complete with reasonable goals, than widen its search procedures and still fail to hire more minorities and women. The plan is merely a promise, a pledge that need not bear fruit...
Shouting "Bread, education, freedom!" thousands of students, many of them carrying clubs, surged through downtown Athens, where they started fires and tied up traffic. Some used appropriated buses as barricades, from which they peppered police with fruit and stones. In Constitution Square, students were met by a massive force of truncheon-swinging riot police and clouds of tear gas. In scenes that to some observers seemed like a re-enactment of the Costa-Gavras film Z, some police kicked and bludgeoned the demonstrators, while others fired machine guns into the air to scatter the student mobs...
...Pearl River banks, old men squat placidly over a game of cards and little girls hop in unison over their skipping ropes. Canton's mood is relaxed, visibly so in the curious but friendly glances foreigners get, or in the newly repainted names of stores: MOON BEAM FRUIT STORE and EASTERN SEA HERBAL MEDICINES now glow in soft pastels where only a few years ago there were strident slogans in gaudy...
...tight party organization has borne some fruit: Beame went into the election with the backing of Badillo, and Percy Sutton, the black bourough President of Manhattan, preserving at least the appearance of racial harmony. Both are mayoral contenders, and don't want to alienate party leaders and followers...