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...about answering at all, Yitzhak Rabin mulled the question carefully. This was in the mid-1980s, and Rabin was hardly a disinterested observer. He and Shimon Peres had been bitter Labor Party rivals throughout their careers. Both men were still angling to lead Israel, and Rabin was reluctant to offend needlessly. "O.K.," he finally said, "but this is for later. You'll talk to me first...
...South, where 36.4% of black students attended majority-white schools by 1972. But Chief Justice Warren Burger's opinion in Swann also opened the door for the federal courts to get out of the integration business. Once legally enforced segregation was eliminated, he wrote, single-race schools would not offend the Constitution unless some agency of the government had deliberately resegregated them...
...fare. When Huston delivered her film, gritty scenes and all, it dawned on Turner execs (particularly Ted) that they couldn't air the movie without vigorous cuts. "Her vision of the film and what we could air were not the same thing," says a TNT spokeswoman. Not wanting to offend Huston, or indeed Jennifer Jason Leigh, who stars, Turner offered it back to Huston, who will now try for a big-screen release. At least it's a novel method of getting movie financing. COMIC TOOL...
...personally never offended by [the use of 'freshman'], but the fact that it does offend some means to me that it should be changed," said RUS Treasurer Kavida Kacholia...
...Dean Lewis has chosen to offend the College community a third time with his very practical decision to ban Hanukkah menorahs from student dormitory rooms. Let's follow his logic. This past December, a first-year creates a Rube Goldberg menorah from a three-hole punch. The candles topple. The desk and computer catch fire. Dean thinks, "What if other desks and computers catch on fire when irresponsible students create defective holiday contraptions? We must prevent all Jewish students from lighting menorahs...