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That report suggested a restructuring of public service at Harvard with which most students and many staff members of PBHA vehemently disagreed. To add insult to injury, in the students' eyes, Lewis did not appoint any faculty PBHA recommended to the search committee for a new assistant dean of public service and then chose PBHA leaders' fourth choice of four in November for the new deanship...
...forever finished with its controversial nuclear testing program. Although Chirac announced an end to the testing two days ago, many Democrats boycotted the Capitol Hill speech. They charged that after conducting six nuclear tests over the past six months, the announcement came far too late. "We return the insult with our insult," said Eleanor Holmes Norton, congressional delegate from the District of Columbia. House Republicans late Wednesday night blocked an effort to withdraw Chirac's invitation. But despite a last-minute effort to fill the seats with congressional staffers, the French President was left speaking to a half-empty gallery...
...Clinton might have devoted days to Hamlet-like meditations over how to respond to much an insult. Not so the new Clinton, bolstered by a fresh spine from his stands over Bosnia and the budget. Such a man would not such an insult sitting down. That afternoon he sent White House spokesperson Mike McCurry to inform the sports reporters in the White House press corps that "The President, if he were not the President, would have delivered a more forceful response to that, on the bridge of Mr. Safire's nose...
...feeling is that it should not be done, that a lot of people who are Harvard alumni, or students at Harvard today, will regard it as something of an insult to memorialize those fought against the U.S. and for a society based on slavery and I can sympathize with [them]," he argues. "Often times saying both sides fought is an evasion of moral commitment to which side was on the right...
...Though they say it is reconciliation, the hidden agenda is to legitimize retroactively a cause for which Harvard alumni fought against. The University associated with the Northern cause, including Oliver Wendell Homes Jr., and it is an insult to the memory of these people to memorialize the men against whom they fought," he adds...