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...fanatics. I have to confess that before I went to the clinic, the image I had in my mind of a pro-lifer was a decidedly negative one. I imagined this person as a deeply religious, Southern white male, probably uneducated, probably racist and fairly low on the socioeconomic ladder. But when I looked around myself at the vigil, I saw people from all walks of life. Men and women, Blacks and whites, young and old were gathered together in prayer...
...lifelong resident of Cambridge and the city's only Black representative to Beacon Hill, is by all accounts a quiet and unassuming person. "He's a thoroughly likable individual," says Glenn S. Koocher '71, host of "InsideOut," a weekly Cambridge political talk show. "He has never climbed the political ladder over the backs of anyone else...
...appealing because they attack the malaise of hidebound tradition that plagues our campus. He all but endorsed a real tenure track, which would result in Harvard tenuring homegrown scholars before their hair turns gray. He argued for stronger career development programs, so that moving up the administrative and academic ladder involves more than just kissing the asses of the white males in power. He suggested that the ad hoc process which generally decides whether a scholar gets tenure may systematically eliminate scholars of diverse ideas and backgrounds...
...MUCH OF LAST WEDNESDAY, TERRY LYNN Nichols busied himself with a few simple chores around his newly purchased two-bedroom house. He asked to borrow Etta Mae Hartke's ladder so that he could fix a loose metal vent on the roof. "I said it was O.K., if he put the ladder back," Hartke, 76, recalls. "When I looked, it was back where it was supposed to be." He had cable television installed, telling the Cablevision worker he was glad the TV was finally hooked up so he could "keep up with the Oklahoma bombing." And one of the last...
...upright and moral now-drank one sip of beer. She was immediately suspended from school. While she was home for three days, she decided, instead of seriously contemplating her transgression, to sunbathe. One of the men who was painting her house at the time noticed and fell from a ladder, breaking his leg. At least she feels bad about...