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...Joint appointments in comparative literature, music, social sciences, history and art are all planned, as well as the arrival of Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, a specialist in religious history who will join the department next year...
President Neil L. Rudenstine yesterday addressed the concerns of Faculty members about the choice of Chair of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Colin L. Powell as Commencement speaker, affirming that Powell's speech would probably not address the issue of gays in the military...
Kelly seems to be engaging in some sort of moral or ethical calculus here: he argues that Powell's achievements as the first Black person to be chair of the Joint Chiefs of Staff outweigh the General's belief that bisexual, gay and lesbian people should be kept out of the military. I am not prepared to weigh the concerns of one oppressed group against the concerns of another...
...believe he has been a most distinguished chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff," he said. He said he believes it is wrong to attribute to Powell views on a matter on which he only expressed an institutional opinion...
Clinton came to office with a deserved reputation as a consensus builder. "He tried that right off with the Joint Chiefs over the issue of gays in the military, and got swatted down by Colin Powell and Sam Nunn," says an Administration official. Competing lessons were drawn from that early dustup. Defense Secretary Les Aspin said, "Obviously, a lot more consultation with key players like Nunn" would have helped. Clinton's rhetoric agreed, but his actions since often haven't. "A quote in an article back then still bothers him," says a Clinton aide. "The one where a Senator said...