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...simply cannot agree that the President's plight is the result of a "vast right-wing conspiracy." Given the competence and credibility of all those involved, from Starr to Lewinsky, this conspiracy can only be defined as "half-vast." DAVID ARNOLD West Branch, Iowa...
...that the most significant progress was made. One student asked, "Why don't Jews do more to help other struggling minorities? You of all peoples should understand what struggle is like." A Jew inquired of the black students, "Why doesn't your community take more responsibility for its own plight?" Inquiries and answers flew back and forth. At one point, during a discussion about Jewish loyalty to Israel, I suggested that the roots of that loyalty lie at the deepest level in the Jewish fear that someday, somehow, we may be forced out of the United States...
...courses to the FAS curriculum, a savvy ability to use the tools of information technology to inform the oblivious, and, yes, a vocal and activist Undergraduate Council willing to use its Harvard moniker as a bully pulpit on which to speak up for progressive causes, whether it be the plight of migrant farm laborers or Harvard's egregious and covert land acquistions in the working-class community of Allston...
...ride away from Los Angeles"). A $6,000 recruitment fee was demanded. "When we arrived here, suddenly there was no job," says Mohamed Feroj Ahmed, one of more than 100 Bangladeshis who wander the island, indebted but unable to find more than day labor. When told of the Bangladeshis' plight, Congressman Miller said, "How low do you have to get to rip off a Bangladeshi...
...charged novelist Cynthia Ozick in a recent New Yorker article in which she claimed the diary has been "falsified, kitschified and, in fact, blatantly and arrogantly denied." Ralph Melnick, author of The Stolen Legacy of Anne Frank, contends that the play so carefully avoids the particulars of the Jews' plight under Hitler that it almost becomes "a drama of people who were suffering through a housing shortage...