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...back. No, not Arnold Schwarzenegger. It's Rupert Murdoch, who's trying to prevent the termination of the bankrupt New York Post. Five years ago, after Murdoch bought a New York TV station, federal regulators forced him to sell the tabloid. A series of inept owners followed; the latest, Abe Hirschfeld, was so despised that his workers aboused him with headlines like WHO IS THIS NUT? In desperation, New York pols are importuning Washington to let Murdoch buy the Post again. Though staff members cheer, they may still face demands to tighten their belts one more notch...
...star of the show is Matthew Strack, who plays the geeky, ineffectual, soon-to-be-sacked Henry McNeil. His desperate but entirely inept brown-nosing of Taylor amuses the audience no end. The character does not lend itself to hamming; Strack manages to be both convincing and funny...
...letter, Prof. Mansfield presented a potentially "shocking" idea to Ali; the entire Harvard community should listen. Minority students "are being hurt more by the inept good will of whites than by lingering racism." That is the lesson I am learning every day at Harvard as racial tensions continue to increase behind a veil of silence. We cannot tacitly accept this misguided crusade for justice. The consequences of affirmative action should not be ignored or silenced--especially by its recipients themselves...
Meanwhile, I urge Ali to entertain the idea--which I know will be shocking to him--that Black students are being hurt more by the inept good will of whites than by lingering racism. He himself is on the right track when he scorns being dependent on "some benevolent white teaching fellow or professor." All he needs is to add to this, "or some benevolent white admissions officer...
...Blacks suffer more from inept good will on the part of whites than they do from racism," Mansfield said...