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...recent declaration by Reverend Jesse Jackson that Americans of African ancestry should henceforth be known as African-Americans adds a popular voice to a concept put forth by Black intellectuals for many years. This is a very serious matter because it involves the labeling of some 30 million North Americans (and millions in the Caribbean and Latin America) who can trace part of their ancestry back to Africa. In our search for a positive identity of our own choosing, we have gone from African, to Colored, to Negro, to Black (a protest term which demonstrated that we preferred to identify...
There is much in this grand old man of Cambridge that will be missed. Probably the mayor's best known attribute among Harvard students is his rhetorical fondness for bashing academia. Others may know him for his attacks on condo developers, sanctimonious do-gooders and bureaucrats, or his promotion of worthy causes from world peace to Italian home cooking...
...theater is also known for its live performances and its film festivals, including the annual "Festival of Animation" and the ever-popular "Attack of the Killer B's," a weekend celebration of Hollywood's lesser-known creations...
...took some gunboat diplomacy to bring the area under British sovereignty. The Treaty of Nanking in 1842 ended the First Anglo-Chinese War and transferred Hong Kong to the crown. In 1898 the mainland region later known as the New Territories was added under the 99-year lease agreement. The only disruption of the tenancy was the Japanese occupation during World...
...most common -- and controversial -- childhood behavioral disorder. According to the National Institutes of Health, as many as 1 out of 10 U.S. youngsters -- mostly boys -- may suffer from the baffling syndrome. Doctors disagree about what causes hyperactivity, or attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), as it is now known. Everything from brain damage to stress, food allergies or radiation from TV sets has been suggested. The NIH says the problem is probably a combination of as yet elusive genetic, environmental, neurological or biochemical factors. Diagnosis is difficult, since there is no laboratory test for the disorder, and the symptoms are vague...