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Spurned by the lack of minority representation on last Friday's Junior Parents' Weekend panel at the Science Center, the coalition protested outside and enumerated five demands in a flyer, titled "The Peculiar Institution...

Author: By Melissa Lee, | Title: A Week in the Life of a Coalition | 3/12/1993 | See Source »

...coalition members say they want to continue mobilizing as a coalition even if they do resolve their concerns with the "Peculiar Institution...

Author: By Melissa Lee, | Title: A Week in the Life of a Coalition | 3/12/1993 | See Source »

Mansfield's remarks have provoked a wave of controversy in the past month and constituted one grievance listed in a flyer titled "The Peculiar Institution," distributed last week by a coalition of nine minority groups...

Author: By Elizabeth J. Riemer, | Title: Prof. Mansfield Defends Views | 3/12/1993 | See Source »

...flyer, entitled "The Peculiar Institution," questioned Knowles and Rudenstine for their silence on Thomson Professor of Government Harvey G. Mansfield's allegedly insensitive comments linking grade inflation to an increased number of Black students on campus in the 1970s...

Author: By John Tessitore and Anna D. Wilde, S | Title: Coalition Expects Support | 3/9/1993 | See Source »

Names possess a peculiar indelible power -- subversive, evocative, satirical, by turns. The name is an aura, a costume. Dickens knew how names proclaim character -- although anyone named Lance is bound to hope that that is not always true. Democrats used to have fun with "George Herbert Walker Bush." The full inventory of the pedigree, formally decanted, produced a piled-on, Connecticut preppie-Little Lord Fauntleroy effect that went nicely with the populist crack that Bush "was born on third base and thought he had hit a triple...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Strange Burden of a Name | 3/8/1993 | See Source »

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