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...omnipresent, blatant forms are unacceptable causes an openly racist person is subject to social condemnation. Why does Mansfield fit in so well here at Harvard? Because he has mastered the paradoxical art of being a bigot while arguing from an institutionally supported "intellectual" position. Henry Louis Gates and A. Leon Higginbotham have noted that The Bell Curve proves that it is not the uneducated racist who is the most dangerous. Mark Fuhrman's racism is easy to spot and "blacklist," but have you looked at your own "white lies" lately? This is what our protest is about. We urge members...
...highlights some of the laurels awarded professors over the past several months. Those mentioned ranged from Higgins Professor of Biochemistry Jack L. Strominger '46 and Professor Don C. Wiley, winners of the prestigious Lasker Awards for medical research, to the Kennedy School's Public Service Professor of Jurisprudence A. Leon Higginbotham, who last month received the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation's highest civilian honor...
Another recipient of the Medal of Freedom will be retired federal judge A. Leon Higginbotham Jr., public service professor of jurisprudence at the Kennedy School of Government...
...before Congress is expected to vote on the Medicare reform proposal, they are scrambling to oppose it with a proposal that last week seemed a little more than oppositionism. In a last-ditch effort to mobilize health-care providers against the House G.O.P. plan, Clinton's chief of staff Leon Panetta convened a White House meeting with industry lobbyists and a representative of the American Association of Retired Persons. One health-care lobbyist told him he was too late. "We've been meeting with Gingrich every two days," he said. "They were the only game in town." So the Democrats...
Education is almost as ill-served. Leon Brave Heart, like an estimated 50% of the tribe, had an alcohol problem; it caused him to drop out of school. But when his father died of cirrhosis of the liver and his mother was killed in a car crash, he dried out and returned to school. In San Francisco, he joined the Job Corps, specializing in cooking and culinary studies. Now the 22-year-old works at a tiny convenience store on the reservation while caring for 10 extended-family members who share a shack and a trailer. Brave Heart wants...