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Dates: during 1980-1989
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As Harvard students, we can start this battle at home. College students have historically been at the forefront of America's battles against racism. Black colleges in the South were centers of early civil rights activism--Jesse Jackson got his start at North Carolina A&T. During the 1960s, students...

Author: By Mitchell A. Orenstein, | Title: Laissez-Faire Racism | 5/2/1988 | See Source »

FROM an oratorical standpoint, Walter Mondale gave the best speech of his life that night. The crowd at the 1984 Democratic convention in San Francisco (admittedly, a partisan audience) was hanging on his every word. Even though he was following Mario Cuomo, Jesse Jackson and Geraldine Ferraro, the lead-toungued...

Author: By John L. Larew, | Title: A Taxing Reality | 4/27/1988 | See Source »

The exam in use is a pared-down version of the California Achievement Tests. Children are asked to identify shapes, numbers and objects and solve rudimentary math problems ("Sam is the tenth person in line. How many people are in front of him?"). "It was easy," bragged Jesse Palmer, 6...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Can Kids Flunk Kindergarten? | 4/25/1988 | See Source »

For a long time, the war on drugs was Jesse Jackson's signature tune, his issue. Fifteen years ago, Jackson was decrying drugs as America's public enemy No. 1. The drug issue is -- and has been -- the strongest, the most reassuring, the most universally appealing part of his populist...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Riding The Drug Issue | 4/25/1988 | See Source »

First, I make it clear in my letter why I prefer the term "neoracist" rather than Glenn Orenstein's "condescending" to characterize Matthew Joseph's silly suggestion that Jesse Jackson's presidential campaign is out of order. I said that 1) the constitutional norms allow Jackson's campaign; 2) the...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Neoconservatives | 4/21/1988 | See Source »

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