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...AMONG THOSE WHO HELPED CHARLES KEATING BRING about the 1989 collapse of Lincoln Savings and Loan, lawyers in the Cleveland firm of Jones, Day, Reavis & Pogue were pivotal. Without admitting actual guilt, the gigantic firm has agreed to pay a record $51 million to the Resolution Trust Corporation, the federal body managing the assets of failed S&Ls. According to the RTC, Jones Day attorneys -- hired by Keating in 1986 -- were well aware that Keating was practicing financial and legal legerdemain to conceal Lincoln's serious problems. Yet Jones Day raised no alarm. The resulting failure cost taxpayers at least...
...flawed judgment. Last week members of congressional investigating committees suggested either closing down the ATF's law-enforcement operations or merging the ATF, now a branch of the Treasury Department, with the Justice Department. Agency morale is devastated. Says Troy: "We have frustrated, hurt agents, involved in collective guilt. We're dealing with a highly traumatic situation...
...coalition is not, as Mr. Field alleged, playing on "white students' and administrators' sympathies or guilt," they are simply demanding that this injustice and inequity that you mentioned be corrected. Mr. Fields segregated the white students from "everyone else" on this campus by making this statement...
...Field's portrayal of the coalition's actions is unjust and sound somewhat like a parental guilt trip: "[the coalition's] members interrupted Junior Parents Weekend in a confrontational manner, showing little respect to the many parents that had travelled from around the world to spend time with their children," [the coalition] preferring to intimidate students, parents, and faculty members in public arenas rather than to explain themselves in a civil manner." The program on diversity was not interrupted; the coalition members allowed the discussion to proceed naturally. They had simply presented the issue of diversity on this campus...
...Fields criticizes the coalition's tactics as play[ing] on white students' and administrators sympathies or guilt." What exactly is there to feel guilty about? And, if there is something worth feeling guilt about, perhaps that should be rectified. Mr. Fields states that "Coalition members should try to focus on reality. If they believe that the racism that accompanied the slave system is really alive at Harvard, then they will be surprised at the injustice and racial inequality that exists in the real world. Harvard is far from the 'plantation'..." Are you saying, Mr. Fields, that I should be happy...