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...occupied a larger place in campus politics. Last year, the BSA sponsored a lecture by controversial City University of New York professor Leonard Jeffries and distributed a flyer entitled "On the Harvard Plantation" listing grievances against The Crimson, the Harvard University. Police Department, the Law School and Peninsula...
Here's one example: last year Peninsula, a conservate magazine, asked the Foundation for a grant to fund an issue on race relations--a topic which clearly falls within the Foundation's stated interests. They were turned down. Yet this fall, HQ received money for a magazine that has little to do with race, according to the Foundation's strict definition...
...asking the Foundation to endorse Peninsula's viewpoints. But we do want to foster sincere debate on race relations. Quashing dissenting views does nothing to improve race relations. Everyone stands to learn from forthright discussion. No organization--particularly one like the Foundation that is designed to promote such discussion--should discriminate for grants on the basis of political orientation, on the left or on the right...
...months on end, blocking sunlight and causing temperatures to plummet. In the cold and dark, plants and animals perished. Compelling evidence of such cataclysms was revealed last summer: scientists confirmed that a giant crater, 176 km (110 miles) across, discovered under the northern tip of Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula was the likely impact point of a huge object, probably a comet, believed to have wiped out the dinosaurs and other forms of life 65 million years...
...Asia's four rapidly developing "Little Dragons" -- along with South Korea, Taiwan and Hong Kong -- Singapore is the smallest and in some ways the most successful. The former British colony at the tip of the Malay Peninsula only achieved full independence in 1965, yet it boasts Asia's highest living standard after Japan, an average per capita income of $15,000 (about the same as the U.S.) and by far the world's highest per capita cache of foreign reserves...