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...allows them to resonate. The real blame belongs to the "benevolent white admissions officer" and the University officials who enforce the policy of special treatment based on the criterion of race. For by implementing such a practice, these well-meaning administrators create the atmosphere for the opportunity--and the likelihood--of questions of legitimacy based on race, such as Mansfield...
...first, party bigwigs tried to brazen it out. But as the evidence of graft among the major parties multiplied, so did public outrage. Shortly before resigning, Craxi was accosted by an angry mob outside his party headquarters. Damning testimony from several key figures, and the likelihood that members of Parliament will be stripped of their immunity from criminal prosecution, sent party higher-ups into a frenzy. Says sociologist Franco Ferrarotti of the University of Rome: "These people always operated on the concept that public funds belong to the person who grabs them first. Whatever they steal is theirs. There...
...bomb, a new question -- whether a season of terrorism might begin in the U.S. -- had been raised. In the wake of the explosion, bomb threats forced the evacuation of the Empire State Building and Newark airport. Both threats were false, but no one was ready to dismiss the likelihood of another assault. Around the country, airports and other public facilities stepped up security. The blast was a reminder of the vulnerability of most American office buildings, shopping malls, airports and railway stations. Even the U.S. government has let its guard down since the mid-1980s, when American installations were...
Lipman, who filed the civil action motion, wrote that "the plaintiff will, in all likelihood, recover in excess of $25,000." Lipman said yesterday it would be up to a jury to decide how much of that amount each defendant would...
...were a not too distant possibility. "I did not mean to float a trial balloon," Clinton said Friday, as the issue threatened to engulf his campaign to push his first round of tax proposals. Meanwhile in Washington, Clinton's Budget Director, Leon Panetta, brought up the likelihood of new taxes on guns, alcohol and tobacco. "It's a bit too early to say," Panetta said, but then he went ahead and said...