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...either a Jew, an Italian, a Pole, a Greek, a Puerto Rican or, as we said in those days, a Negro. Racial epithets were hurled around and sometimes led to fistfights. But it was not "You're inferior--I'm better.'' The fighting was more like avenging an insult to your team. Among my boyhood friends were Victor Ramirez, Walter Schwartz, Manny Garcia, Melvin Klein. The Kleins were the first family in our building to have a television set. Every Tuesday night we crowded into Mel's living room to watch Milton Berle. On Thursdays we watched Amos 'n' Andy...
...nation's best-known university, Harvard occupies the position of intellectual standard-bearer for millions of people. For the university whose professors appear everywhere from "Nova" to "Ann Landers" to provide the same honors to a murderer as to her victim is not only an insult to the family and friends of Trang Ho, it is downright irresponsible. It perpetuates the message that anything is forgivable, so long as you yourself are a victim...
...shockingly sloppy. It received tips about Alpirez' supposed abuses from highly unreliable witnesses but did not seek corroboration. At one point, the station even passed on--without further investigation-allegations of torture based solely on secondhand accounts of his boasts at a drinking party. Then the station officers added insult to idiocy: the report details their withholding suspicions from two successive American ambassadors in Guatemala, from the U.S. Congress and sometimes from their own superiors. Hitz concludes that this was all from negligence rather than by intent...
...inevitable. But as Dole's lead over Clinton has vanished, there is a growing fear in G.O.P. circles that the party is about to nominate a man who does not excite the party's rank and file; a Washington insider in an age when the term has become an insult; a closet centrist with a hard head and a bleeding heart; and, most worrisome, a candidate who might squander the party's chance to exploit Clinton's weakness and gain a new Republican dynasty...
...annual gathering staged for federal, state and local law enforcement officers since 1980 in rural Tennessee. Making matters worse, two black agents ofthe Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms, one retired and one active, depicted Roundup organizer Gene Rightmyer as a man who went out of his way to insult blacks. One of them, Larry Stewart, said Rightmyer approached three black agents in 1985 and "without any provocation . . . stated, 'You were born trash, you'll live and die trash.'" Other law officers who had attended the gatherings -- including blacks -- testified that racism had never been tolerated there. The Clinton Administration...