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Activists from the student group United Non-Discriminatory Initiative Against Equality (UNITED) held a church-style "preach-in" at Harvard Divinity School (HDS) yesterday, protesting what they view as a lack of diversity in the faculty and denouncing what they say has been an unresponsive administration on the issue...
UNITED was spurred to organize the preach-in in December when they heard that two of the school's few black faculty members, Allen D. Callahan and Preston Williams, were leaving...
...mammoth shadow, Al rarely mentioned his connection to the president and told Bill to stay home. I can see why Al would initially want to create this distance, but come crunch time in the fall, Al should have campaigned with Bill on the issues and sent Bill out to preach the gospel of Al. Doesn't the Tennessean realize that if the Rhodes scholar were to run again, he would easily defeat his veep and W.? The most successful politician qua politician of our day, Bill still gets 60 percent approval ratings, as if the Gallup Poll keeps on questioning...
...last time, class. Gore will work 17-hour days, go to every battleground state, crowd and kitchen table, and preach his issues, detail by policy detail. He will stress "choices," "priorities," and the "are you better off" question, on whatever topic and in whatever degree of southern twang is appropriate to the gathering. His political sense drives him to promise a continuation; his vanity makes him promise change. And he's banking that if he explains himself long enough and well enough, voters will do their homework, vote with their heads and choose him over the red sports...
...mind "of a shadowy figure, the back of whose head I could see as she moved toward an exit sign...Now she's gone, and there's nobody in my native family between me and the exit sign." He determined then to practice what he was about to preach...