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...affirmative action) and censured for not wanting to listen to dissenters (Franklin declined to hear from affirmative action's leading opponent, Ward Connerly). At a recent community gathering in Dallas, which was sanctioned by the panel and led by Transportation Secretary Rodney Slater, the doors were shut and whites kept away. And on the board itself, some members are so frustrated that they've stopped attending meetings regularly. "The President would probably like to start this thing over," says a White House official. "The problem is, it's too late...
...black, one white, separate and unequal." But it also called for creating 2 million jobs and building 6 million housing units, not the kind of direction the fiscally conservative Clinton was likely to embrace. The White House instead chose to begin conversations on race, led by an advisory board kept under its tight control. It is so tight that the board won't even have the last word: its report will be drawn up by a Clinton adviser, Christopher Edley Jr., who wrote the President's famous "mend it, don't end it" answer to critics of affirmative action...
...into exile nine years later. His cause is not made easier by the facts that much of the world is trying to court China, the world's largest marketplace, and that he is the guest of a huge nation with problems of its own that would rather he kept quiet. And, as church and state incarnate, the Dalai Lama, winner of the 1989 Nobel Prize for Peace, finds himself denied the privileges of a full-fledged political leader even as he cannot enjoy the peaceful immunity of a purely religious figure...
...Baratunde R. Thurston '99 is the Claverly Hall user assistant for HASCS, editor-in-chief of the Harvard Computer Society's Computer@Harvard and a Crimson editor. He has never kept a New Year's resolution...
...years ago on a women's baseball team. (Typically, Hunt worked so hard honing her skills as a second baseman that at season's end, she was voted "most improved player.") "She was never an ingenue. Now she's growing into her old self. The part of her that kept her from roles at 19 has given her balance and success...