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Those who argue that Harvard cannot be a powerful force for change might recall the catalyzing effect of the academic and student community's opposition to the Vietnam war. And those who would blithely defer to the fade at government for leadership in the fight against apartheid may ask themselves...
When Carl Lewis received the Jesse Owens Award last week, for once no one strained to hear boos. The applause was pure. Ruth Owens, who could not accompany her husband to Berlin in 1936, told how especially touching it was for her "to see Carl out on the track there...
The tobacco program will not go down without a bitter fight in Congress. "It's war," declares Republican Congressman Larry Hopkins of Kentucky. Senator Jesse Helms passed up the chance to be chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee simply to protect tobacco as chairman of the Senate Agriculture Committee...
On a lighter note, Russell patted himself on the back for walking "with kings--with Spanish King Juan Carlos, with Vice President George Bush at the Olympics and with presidential candidate the Rev Jesse Jackson--and still keeping touch with the common people."
Winter adds that the candidacy of the Rev. Jesse Jackson polarized the South, and that most whites felt disillusioned by the Democratic Party. Mondale got less than 20 percent of the white vote in Mississippi, he says.