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...weeks ago, on the eve of spring break, the University announced the cancellation of its South Africa Internship Program after the program drew harsh criticism from student anti-apartheid activists, was attacked at a faculty meeting and was denounced by several Black political and religious leaders in South Africa...
...THINK all of this is a bit harsh, that I'm just bitching at shadows, then let me take you into a section of mine, one so intolerable that I only went to it twice...
Some Congressmen accuse Buchanan of trying to revive the Red-baiting of the McCarthy era with his remarks about the Democrats doing the Kremlin's work, among other canards. Indeed, President Reagan was said to be concerned about the harsh tone of Buchanan's newspaper column last week, and Chief of Staff Regan privately chided Buchanan for rushing his blast into print without first getting White House approval. Buchanan protests, "I'm not suggesting that anyone on the Hill is a Communist. But I do say that this is a choice between the freedom fighters and the Sandinistas." He adds...
...Anglo-India, a new kind of movie: fast, bold, harsh and primitive, like a prodigious student film with equal parts promise and threat. My Beautiful Laundrette has no echo of eulogy in its street wit, no time for nuances of character in its rush to spray-paint a teeming social fresco. Hanif Kureishi, 29, the film's author, says he originally planned a three- or four- hour work with a Godfather sprawl, but settled for 93 minutes and (pounds) 600,000 from Britain's Channel 4. The pinch shows, and so does the pluck. Kureishi's story shifts moods...
...while the Administration's policies have been subject to harsh criticisms from Congress and civil rights groups like the American Civil Liberties Union, criticism has not been limited to outside groups. Last year, a majority of the President's Civil Rights Commission resigned after Reagan continued ignored their recomendations to enforce existing laws...