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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...they can relax about deportation fears for the rest of their lives. Of course, they will receive a special identification card to prove their status; any legal worker in this country, immigrant or not, will have to prove their "19" status at the will of the authorities. That was part of the bargain...
Yesterday's Crimson incorrectly reported that the divestment bill introduced today in the Massachusetts Legislature would affect schools with $50 million or more invested in South Africa. It would affect schools with endowments of $50 million or more, any part of which is invested in South African-linked corporations...
...Part of the reason for this mistaken identity is that my very existence has to remain a secret to keep the government scientists off my case. I have managed it through a brilliant scam: practically everyone thinks I'm a puppet! Sustaining this conspiracy takes a few collaborators. My main partner is a onetime comic magician named Paul Fusco. He actually claims to have invented me. Sure, he talks like me, laughs like me, jokes like me, even sort of looks like me. But I'm 230 years old and he's 35, barely old enough to have...
...this might have passed relatively unnoticed were it not for another, unprecedented feature of Whittle's plan: as part of the deal, he is asking doctors to cancel their office subscriptions to all but two non-Whittle publications. Not surprisingly, publishers of the magazines Whittle seeks to displace are enraged by his project. "Whittle's plan is not far away from book burning," exclaims T George Harris, editor of American Health, which offers 100,000 subscriptions free of charge to doctors. "We aren't about to roll over," declares Kenneth Gordon, publisher of Reader's Digest. John Beni, president...
...major reason is the most discomforting one: Jackson's unique limitations are due in large part to race. Americans have shown themselves ready for blacks in the Cabinet but apparently not as President. Surveys have found that 15% to 20% of the American electorate admit that, simply because he was black, they would not vote for a black presidential candidate. The glass ceiling that keeps blacks and other minorities from getting beyond statewide office is double-glazed at the presidential level. Says Benjamin Hooks, executive director of the N.A.A.C.P., of Jackson's limits: "It's primarily race. The majority...