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Ideologically, we oppose the whole idea of uniformed vigilantes mobilizing wherever they deem their presence is needed. Romantic visions of wild, wild West ranchers hunting down evil bandits should not overshadow other examples in our history of people taking the law into their own hands. The Ku Klux Klan, after all, lynched for the sake of Southern order and womanhood...
While the men and women in Byerly Hall may worry a bit about the effects of the preliminary Klitgaard report, they want to hold off final judgement until the final report is released. But even if the next version is wanted down, it may not overshadow any negative results of the preliminary draft. On the other hand, the lure of the Harvard name may reign supreme--provided the admissions office continues to disassociate itself from Klitgaard's opinions. "Students that plan to apply to Harvard," the Stuyvesant High School counselor insists, "will apply anyway...
...should see, to get closer to the city in which they live and to the other side of the issue which rings throughout newspapers and dining halls. Intellectual reevaluation of the politics of Harvard and America incites us, and rightly so, but the rhetoric we adopt can grow to overshadow the sadness and the personal alienation of the problem. The Dark End of the Street shows those very private feelings prompted by very public displays of racism and hate...
...when it was shorthanded because of penalties. Afterward, President Carter phoned Coach Herb Brooks to say: "We were trying to do business, and nobody could. We were watching TV with one eye and Iran and the economy with the other." But even the thrilling hockey victory could not overshadow the accomplishments of a young and unassuming speed skater from the Midwest. Perhaps the most vivid single image of the 1980 Winter Games was the sight of Eric Heiden's heroically muscled thighs molded in a skating skin of gold as he stroked his way to five Olympic golds, five...
DIED. Sonia Delaunay, 94, pioneering modernist painter and seminal designer of the art deco look; in Paris. Ukrainian-born Sonia Terk moved to Paris in 1905 and made a splash as an innovative colorist. In 1910 she married Cubist Robert Delaunay, whose work and thought came to overshadow and fuse with her own. While her painting made its mark only after his death in 1941, she established herself in the '20s by applying abstract principles of color and geometry in designing books, ceramics, costumes for Serge Diaghilev and fabrics for Coco Chanel...