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...spring semester, I noticed some quotes from my editorials on the "Out of Context" page of Peninsula magazine. If you've never seen it before, Peninsula is a monthly Harvard student publication that attempts to blend the teachings of Jesus, free market and libertarian ideologies with the racial sensibilities of David Duke. Mainly, it serves as a monument to self-righteous hubris, but when I first saw a copy of Peninsula at my door, I wondered why Dean Epps had allowed trash to be door-dropped...
...Peninsula labels me a "probable affirmative action admit." Nothing could be further from the truth. I am, in fact, a definite affirmative action admit. The only reason that I am at Harvard is because of my Black ancestry. I have no academic credentials. My high school grades were barely passing, my combined SAT score would not even make me eligible for NCAA competition. In fact, my admission was yet another tragic case of reverse discrimination--a talented white, Jewish or Asian student was turned away to make room for me in the name of "diversity...
...compared to other campus publications, this paper looks even better. The Perspective (bastion of bleeding heart liberalism), the Salient (mouthpiece for conservative self-righteous venom), and the Peninsula (a seething brew of libertarian, fundamentalist, and fascist viewpoints), are often either condescending, ignorant, or outright offensive on racial issues...
...objectives to include ousting Saddam from Kuwait. Thus, preparations began to assemble a force that would eventually total 541,000. During the course of the next few months, Powell would make thousands of decisions, ranging from helping to pick a name for the defensive part of the operation (Peninsula Shield and Crescent Shield were rejected in favor of Desert Shield) to getting around Riyadh's insistence that religious services for Jewish soldiers could not be held on Saudi soil (choppers picked up Jewish soldiers and brought them to ships stationed in the gulf to worship...
During the Soviet era, the government used coercion, monetary inducements and subsidies to populate Siberia because of the region's strategic importance. Now that the subsidies have disappeared, people are leaving in search of jobs elsewhere. Of the Kamchatka peninsula's 450,000 people, 320,000 live in two cities. The rest of the peninsula has less than one person per 4 sq. km. But still, people are leaving. The peninsula has lost 40,000 people, nearly 10% of its population, since 1985. In Yakutia, the Arctic city of Cherski, near the mouth of the Kolyma River above the Arctic...