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...river area. But regardless of the facts of the situation, College administrators lost the war of public opinion before it even began. Promises of free trinkets could not overcome irate student groups that made it clear that they would do little to use space that might risk alienating their membership. Time has borne out their convictions. Meetings in the Quad remain, with a few notable exceptions, largely fictitious, and the halls of SOCH are silent more often than not. What were designed to serve as thriving offices operate now mostly as half-furnished storage closets. The reservable meeting rooms demand...
...first two years Yeltsin got quite far indeed. With Gorbachev's backing, he rose to the (nonvoting) rank of candidate membership in the ruling-party Politburo in 1986, but when he tried to apply his reformist zeal to the top echelons he ran into serious trouble. The climax came in October 1987 with a speech to a closed meeting of the 300-member Central Committee that cost him his party positions and started him on the road that led to the 1991 White House confrontation. While no official text of the speech was published at the time, presumably because...
With a 76.6 percent majority vote, the Cherokee have issued a powerful message of intolerance and bigotry. The vote effectively denies freedmen legal rights as Native Americans and membership in their own community, despite their Cherokee lineage and identity...
...determine their citizenry. But their position is contradictory; self-determination is not just the right of the majority to exclude, but the right of a people to self-identify. If the freedmen identify as Cherokees and can stake a legitimate historical claim to that heritage, they should be allowed membership in the Cherokee Nation...
...hand, or the eerily jocular banter that surveillance tapes picked up between Harris and Klebold in Columbine on the other. Making the gunman calmer still is the fact that he has long since convinced himself that the world brought the carnage on itself. Because nobody is exempt from membership in that world, nobody's exempt from the line of fire either. "You forced me into a corner. The decision was yours," were among the most disturbing lines in the suicide videos that Cho left behind, but they may also have been the least original...