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...airborne, into the stands. That was the embarrassing part. Then she went back out again, her radiant smile lighting up the arena. Among the Americans, the national champ is Kristi Yamaguchi, 21, a 5-ft. sprite from Fremont, Calif., known for her precise, delicate artistry. Runner-up is Nancy Kerrigan, 22, of Stoneham, Mass., a Kate Hepburn-style beauty whose elegance carries over into her performing style. Third -- but national champion in 1991 -- is Tonya Harding, 22, of Portland, Ore., a bold, natural athlete who pays little attention to nuance, less to music. Tonya gets out there and jumps...
...essence, Jeffries is the BSA's Confederate flag. When Brigid L. Kerrigan '91 justified the hanging of the Confederate drapeau from her Kirkland House window last year with arguments of regional pride and honor, BSA charged her not with overstepping her free speech rights but with being insensitive to Black feelings about the darker side of the flag...
This time, though, the BSA played Kerrigan's role in offending a campus minority group. For Jews, Jeffries means something--not anti-Semitism (his convenient term for anti-Black sentiment), but anti-Semitism--based on the many on-the-record comments he had made before coming to Harvard...
...they didn't. Like Kerrigan, it seems, they just don't care...
...second paradigm, then, is reflected by Brigid Kerrigan and the BSA. It stands for divisiveness, separatism and insensitivity. The Confederate flag is its symbol, and Leonard Jeffries its prophet...