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...Harvard admissions office, you'll love a group of clubs that takes discrimination against Asian-Americans and favoritism for athletes and legacies to a new level. Final clubs are the last bastion of the old Harvard, a Harvard where men were men, where money talked loud and status even louder, where the unwashed masses were kept in their proper place and women were toys for young bachelors to play with. They are a thorn in the side of tolerance, equality and diversity...
Perhaps, but actions still speak louder than Bessmertnykh's words. The Soviet Union vetoed discussion of the Baltic crisis at a meeting of the Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe last week. The recently signed treaty provides for discussion of "questions of urgent concern," but Moscow blocked that, claiming it would be interference in Soviet domestic affairs. That episode only demonstrated how a hard line at home is imitated in dealings with the rest of the world. "If the Soviet Union becomes a nasty, brutish place," says a U.S. official, "its foreign policy will reflect that...
...raid siren sounds even louder, it seems, than it had yesterday morning. People are shouting "Tilim, tilim (missiles, missiles)!!" in the hallways. Army radio is on instantly. The routine is the same. Masks and down to the sealed room. I am about out the door headed down to 6, when Ze'ev and Mike (the two cameramen) rush into our room. 1424. They head straight for the balcony. I can't believe it. These guys want to take pictures of a missile attack from the open-air balcony! "You guys are fucking crazy," I said...
...marches are planned for the streets of the capital. Says Massachusetts activist Tekla Lewin: "George Bush and his advisers are doing everything they can to plug their ears. This will be a way to get heard." The sound is still far from deafening -- but it does keep growing louder...
...looked and sounded weary as he mounted the podium. Bags bulged under his eyes; his thinning white hair was rumpled; his words came slowly at first. But as he warmed to his theme, his voice grew louder and shook with indignation; he waved his finger and brandished a fist over the lectern. Soviet Foreign Minister Eduard Shevardnadze, known the world over for his all-weather, ear- to-ear grin, for once was in a boiling, very public rage...